10 Seeds Jamaican Cerasee Seeds-bitter Melon-momordica Charantia, Use As Vegetable & Herb Cerasee is widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit, and drink, is among the bitterest of all fruits. Cerasee is very common in Central Florida, but very few people really know the value of this very important herb. This herb may hold the key to a lot of the health problems we face. The fruit is edible when harvested green and cooked. The taste is bitter.Bitter melon has twice the potassium of bananas and is also rich in vitamin A and C. It is a monoecious climber with dark green, deeply lobed leaves with hairs on it. The dioeciously flowers are yellow and the fruits oblong and lumpy with a light green to greenish-white, waxy skin Cerasee comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. The Cerasee more typical of India has a narrower shape with pointed ends, and a surface covered with jagged, triangular "teeth" and ridges. It is green to white in color. Some bear miniature fruit of only 610 cm in length, which may be served individually as stuffed vegetables. These miniature fruit are popular in India and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.The flesh on the cerasee seeds are edible and sweet in taste. The pods found all over the cerasee vine, are first green, then turn orange when ripe.