Edited sentence: Its construction is similar to passion fruit or pomegranates.Optionally, you can lightly bite the seeds with your teeth and suck the sac from around them, before spitting out the seed.The seeds are fine to eat and taste like immature watermelon seeds.The yellow-green flesh has a gelatinous consistency and contains whitish seeds similar to those of a cucumber.Then squeeze the fruit as you suck the small gel feeling sacs into your mouth.They are sold at most grocery stores, though they are expensive.To eat the Kiwano, cut the fruit in half transversely.When picked fully ripe, it has a banana-like taste but when over-ripe it tastes similar to rotten tomato.When picked green and allowed to ripen to an orange color, the fruit tastes like a mix of cucumber and kiwifruit, and when fully ripe has an orange rind with spikes.You can also squeeze the seeds into a bowl, or eat them straight from the fruit with a spoon