Pop

This is the ripe fruit of pop plant. The taste is sweet and there are 10 to 15 seeds inside.


The outer covering which protects the fruit is soft.


Pop plant is more of a vine type. The unripe fruit is green in colour. The name pop derives from the sound of the young fruit when squeeze between your fingers. The young fruit is soft and flexible and when it bursts, a very distinctive pop sound is produced, and so it is call pop plant.

Both the young fruit and tender leaves are edible and cooked as veg. The taste may be not so appealing to some, but then it is a good source of vitamin and fiber.


When the fruit is fully ripen, the outer covering peels by itself. The fruit is then exposed, so that birds and small mammals could eat it.