Is zucchini a fruit or a vegetable?
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Zucchini, (Cucurbita pepo), also called courgette, variety of summer squash in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), grown for its edible fruits. Zucchinis are common in home gardens and supermarkets, and the young fruits are cooked as a vegetable. The flowers are also edible and are sometimes fried..
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All you need to do is thinly cut off the last part of the stem or blossom end of the cucumber and with that piece rub the end of the cucumber in a circular motion. While you do this, a white foam-like substance will emerge from the inside of the cucumber. This is the cucuritacin, which causes bitterness in it.
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Wild cucumbers contain relatively large concentrations of cucurbitacin and are highly bitter, he said, "while their domestic cousins we grow in the garden and buy in the store, tend to have less but varying amounts of the bitter compound.
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