hello pals!
This is your boy meshack Bwoyele Keya ready to present to you kiwano fruit.
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Strange Than Fiction
My baby is orange in colour when ripe and green when unripe. Why do I call this baby strange? He has thorny or hotny protrudings on his body. Not that he is sick. No! He is as fit as a fiddle. His name is kiwano fruit. He goes by other names too. Some call him horned melon, thorn melon, horned cucumber, melano, jelly melon, or blowfish fruit. My baby is peculiar thus trending this many names. Lest I forget, he also goes by the botanical name of cucumis metuliferus.
Unless you have met him, he has green gelatinous fluid full of white seeds which are edible inside his body. What? My baby is not very sweet but tastes like a cucumber mixed with water melon. There! You have his taste.
Now you are acquainted with my nutritious boy! Maybe I forgot to tell you his home of origin is in west and central Africa. My boy belongs to the family of gourds or curcubits called curcubitaceae. Pumpkins, melons, squash and many other climbing plants belong to this group.
Despite the uniqueness in appearance, taste and horns, my baby has very many benefits that will leave your mouth open in amazement.
The Benefits of Kiwano
1. Kiwano is 80% water
How will this help? Since it is highly nutritious, my baby will make you lose weight without exercises and dieting. My baby will make your body trim and smooth. You will not believe it.
2. Kiwano has ingrefients which will slow down the process of aging.
Now one wants to remain young and elegant looking. A kiwano a day will keep age away. This is a miracle fruit. Celebs will find my boy handy.
3. Applying kiwano on your hair will enrich it.
My baby contains vitamin E capable of making the hair strong and beautiful. Here is a strong ingredient to your hair and body mask.
4. Kiwano has most essential minerals and vitamins which can help manage many ailments.
Kiwano can manage High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Asthma and Stomach ulcers. My baby is a healer.
5. Kiwano provides very potent antioxidants. No
Thank you for your post. I never see this fruit before.
It is a unique fruit. I grow them on my farm though they have not fruited now. Maybe I will take pictures of the plants for you