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Yellow bitter melon tastes sweet. It used to be found everywhere, so why does no one sell it now?

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Although the quality of life keeps getting better these days, sometimes we still miss the calm, simple rural life of childhood. When we walked along the roads back then, the roadsides were full of wild fruit trees. We would pick a few and pop them into our mouths; some were sweet, and some could make our teeth ache from sourness. In Huahua's memory, there was a fruit like this that tasted incredibly sweet, and even now, thinking about it still leaves a lingering savoriness!

This fruit looks like bitter melon, but unlike bitter melon, its skin is entirely yellow. In most regions, it is called "lai putao" (bitter gourd). It used to be seen everywhere along the roadsides, but now, if you want to taste that flavor again, it is very hard to find.

This lai putao belongs to the same genus and family as bitter melon, so it looks somewhat similar. We all know bitter melon: take one bite, and it is truly unbearably bitter. That is exactly why many people cannot accept eating bitter melon. After all, life is so sweet, so why make yourself suffer? We usually eat lai putao by peeling off the outer shell and eating the red flesh inside. These pieces of flesh vary in size, but once they are in your mouth, there is only one sensation: sweetness!

Do not think that lai putao has nothing special besides being sweet. In fact, lai putao also has unique nutritional value. When eaten, it benefits the functions and various aspects of our body. If flower lovers see lai putao for sale, they can buy a few and take them home to eat. However, remember one thing: do not buy or eat unripe lai putao, because if the red seeds inside are not ripe, they are toxic.

Why is lai putao said to be good for the body? This is because it is rich in vitamin A and vitamin C. Eating it provides more nutrition than eating many other fruits. Vitamin A can also help relieve the symptoms of night blindness. It not only contains abundant vitamins, but trace elements such as calcium and potassium are also contained in the flesh, and it can also balance the body's acid-base level. From this point of view, after eating this small lai putao, the nutrients really are supplied abundantly.

However, a fruit with such high nutritional value is already hard to see in today's life. Because lai putao was very popular back then, some merchants specially went to sell this lai putao, gradually driving the market price up. After that, this fruit rarely appeared again.

If any flower lovers are interested in lai putao, they can look for seeds and grow a few pots of lai putao at home, so that whenever they want to eat it, they can just pick it right away. Wouldn't that be much more convenient? After all, this kind of childhood memory is truly rare, and being able to savor it again is also a kind of happiness. If everyone has any other strange or nostalgic wild rural fruits, leave a message for Huahua in the comments section, and Huahua will go learn about them!

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