Sponge Gourd Harvesting

Another harvest was accomplished this morning.

My mom and I harvested some sponge gourd hanging on the branches of tall neem tree.
At first, we make a pole to serve as the propel in order to get it since the fruit was hung a little bit higher on the tree. After that, we started to hook those sponge gourd, we had a hard time trying to cop but we manage to get some of the fruit.


Some of the fruit have cuts and gashes due to the impact of falling from above to the ground, but some of those are on the lower portion of the tree and can be easily to get.

Sponge gourd is a cylindrical fruit that grows on a climbing, herbaceous vine. It has a smooth, green skin when young, and may feature ridge lines that run across the skin of the fruit. Sponge gourd is one of the healthiest green vegetables, it is basically a fruit but consumed as vegetables. To make it edible, one needs to harvest it at early stage of development. The fully developed fruit can be used as scrubbing sponge, it can be at bathroom, kitchen or even on your skin to remove dirt.

Sponge gourd contains variety of antioxidants, vitamins, nutrients, lipids, and minerals. The fruit is rich on carbohydrates and vitamin A. It also contains vitamin B5, potassium, manganese, copper, fiber, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and contains magnesium.

Sponge gourd can be benefits for those who eat it regularly

Benefits of Sponge Gourd

• Blood purifier; it flushes out the pollutants from the blood

• Prevent Diabetes; gourds have insulin which regulates the amount of sugar content in our body.

• Good for stomach; it prevents indigestion which lead to healthy stomach.

• Skin care; as I said earlier, fully developed gourds can be used as scrubber. It helps to eliminate dead skin cells from the body or face.

• Weight loss; it helps to prevent cholesterol.

We come up harvesting six fruits. Some are fully grown and some are on it's early development and my mom decided to cook it.

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