The gac fruit

The gac fruit looks quite terrible when it is open but there is basically no smell. Some people say there is no taste but there definitely is.

To me it has a raw flower/pastry taste mixed with a prune or vaguely like raisins.

You can't eat the hard seeds but you have to suck the flesh off the seeds. This fruit does have some nice health benefits.

It has a very snotty texture is not very appetizing but worth a try.

An unripe gac fruit.

We bought an unripe gac fruit and we were delayed to taste it unfortunately since it was very hard still. This one smelled remarkably like cucumbers. The gac fruit is also family or related to the cucumber. A ripe fruit is much softer and more red.

A ripe gac fruit.

Inside a gac fruit.

As you can see it looks very terrible inside and snotty.

Where can you find gac fruits?
Mostly in Southeast Asia. Thailand and Vietnam.

English names: gac fruit, red melon, baby jackfruit, spiny bitter gourd, sweet gourd or cochinchin gourd

Thai name: ฟักข้าว