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Kiwano horned melon fruit - Part 2 (of 3)

December 8th, 2005 · 9 Comments

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  • 1 Anonymous // Feb 28, 2006 at 3:17 pm

    Your photos are beautiful! I’ve heard this is a bad-tasting ornamental fruit.
    I just bought one and am going to have every one in the house take a nasty bite.
    You made art out of this horny one.

  • 2 nika // Feb 28, 2006 at 3:54 pm

    wow, thanks! I hope it goes ok for you all. Let us know if it was enjoyable in any way! :-)

  • 3 whirly // Jun 20, 2007 at 1:06 am

    wow finally found out the name of this fruit…. wasnt even sure it it was a fruit or veggie. not a veggie fan myself but i found this odd thing to be not bad.

  • 4 Araya // Sep 3, 2007 at 8:16 pm

    mmmmmmmmmm………this fruit is good ‘n’ slimmy!!!

  • 5 amanda // Oct 21, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    I heard that the fruit was toxic to mammals… is that true?

  • 6 whirly // Oct 22, 2007 at 10:03 pm

    Well, being a mammal that has eaten this fruit, I would say no, it is not toxic.

  • 7 Nika // Oct 23, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    I dont think so .. perhaps you are thinking of the star fruit? It is toxic to people who have kidney disease.

    see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_fruit

  • 8 Nika // Oct 23, 2007 at 3:06 pm

    whirly: indeed, not toxic :-)

  • 9 Alex // Aug 6, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    oh, so thats how you cut it, that would make it easier to eat. I didn´t quite like it.. tastes like less veggie tasting tomato (even if that is too a fruit). I read it has some good properties, so not toxic..

    I met someone from an area in Mexico where it is supposed to grow, and the person had no clue of what it was, so who eats this??…
    It´s still cool looking fruit, so it definitely gets points for that.

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