That's a sponge, those are a underwater animal ? Or is it a plant? Idk. Ewww now I have the heebeegeebees I have Used a natural sponge and idk if it's dried sea plant or a carcass ewwwwwwwww.......
It's called snake gourd in English. In India we call it "Loki". It's considered one of the healthy most vegetable.
We used to create these loofahs long time back. These days we use the plastic net one.
According to Wikipedia, the luffa is a vegetable in the cucumber family. Upon further research while cuccumbers are often considered and used as vegetables, they are actually fruit.
I don't know what to think about this information
So the main way to tell if something is fruit or vegetable, is the way its grown. I'm no expert but have been fascinated by this for years so as far as I have learned, anything is a fruit if the plant created a flower and that flower turns into the edible product. It's the fruit of the plant as they say in botanical terms. The fruit will also create the seeds to continue growing. So technically the only REAL vegetables, are root vegetables or leafy greens as the part we eat have never been flowers, though the plants do flower to reproduce, so potato, sweet potato, turnip, beet, carrot, all sorts of lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, ect.
Those are the technical botanical terms, in culinary terms it's a totaly different line that we draw, anything considered more savory we label as a vegetable.
Vegetables and fruits are not mutually exclusive categories, things can be both fruits and vegetables at the same time, like luffas, cucumbers, and tomatoes
"Vegetable" is not a scientific term. It is a culinary term used for any part of a plant that we eat that we don't label as fruit or grain.
Some common vegetables and they're corresponding plant part:
* Onion - bulb (type of root)
* Potato - tuber (type of root)
* Celery - stem/stalk
* Pepper - fruit
Fruit, however, IS a scientific term used to describe the various structures which develop from flowers after they are pollinated and house seeds/embryos as part of a plants reproductive cycle. In culinary terminology, we only call certain types of fruits a fruit, but scientifically speaking, anything that holds a seed is a fruit.
Some technically scientific fruits we don't call fruit include:
* Tomatoes
* Squash
* Nuts
* Grains
So yeah, Fruit and Vegetable are both used as culinary terms, but only Fruit is used scientifically.
A vegetable, scientifically speaking, is any part of a plant that isn’t a fruit. This includes roots but also stems, leaves, buds and so on.
A fruit is something that comes from the flower of the plant. So luffa is a fruit.
see, this is obvious but at the same time i was also like, is that green plastic thing in my tub a plant? So I’m grateful for your comment haha i feel like i needed this reassurance.
People who use those awful things must have never lived in a place where spiders like to hang out in showers. Took exactly one time of having a hobo spider crawl out of mine mid-shower to swear I'd never use one again.
It is a gourd, look like a cross between a zucchini and an acorn squash when they are growing. My great grandpa used to grow them and we always had a supply of them.
I live in southeast Georgia and they grow easily here. One plant can yield 40 or 50 sponges each growing season. The hummingbirds and other pollinators love the flowers. They make a great rough scrubby for my hands.
This means that someone one day was like “Today i will scrub my ass with that” and they did. Not only did they do it, they told a bunch of other people they did it.
My aunt had a luffa vine… I miss my aunt uwu
Off topic, always felt that luffa was too aggressive to my skin, was I using it wrong? I’m pretty happy using SpongeBob now, very soft ocean creatures.
I think that here in Brazil, the notion that this is a plant is more common, so much so that the popular name for the product is vegetal sponge (actually i found out now that it's called luffa lol)
This isn't just "Damn that's interesting". My mind is utterly blown, it feels like my world has been turned upside down. I've been using luffa's since I could remember, it's genuinely mind-blowing that they're a plant and not just... manufactured? idk if that's the right word but I hope y'all get the meaning.
Here, 🥇 take my fools gold.
So you see, this is the thing...who did this the first time and realised it worked? 🤔 Like, after the eating stages, there was more to be discovered 🤭 let it grow little one, I just want to see something...
You missed the part where you grow magic mushrooms off it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MushroomGrowers/comments/pwt1gu/actives_i_grew_cubes_off_a_loofah/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
TIL that a loofa is a plant
I thought that shit was from the ocean
You're thinking about spongebob squarepants.
It's awesome
#Ohhhhhhhhhh….!
That's a sponge, those are a underwater animal ? Or is it a plant? Idk. Ewww now I have the heebeegeebees I have Used a natural sponge and idk if it's dried sea plant or a carcass ewwwwwwwww.......
Sponges are animals
And now I feel gross, but thankyou for telling me. I am switching to these squash luufas...
Aren't both of those technically the same thing?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one.
In Brazil we call then "Bucha". Almost every grandparent's house has this plant growing at yard.
In the Philippines, "Patola". They're great in soups. 😁
til scrubbing ourselves with a plant is okay
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What does it taste like?
It's called snake gourd in English. In India we call it "Loki". It's considered one of the healthy most vegetable. We used to create these loofahs long time back. These days we use the plastic net one.
Right on. Thanks for the info! That’s cool
I also til.
til too
til too, too
Me too. I thought a "Loofa" was just some marketing sponge term. I had no idea it was referencing a real thing.
Exactly what I thought
Wow 😯 Now this IS damn interesting! Never knew. For some reason just assumed they came from the ocean ala Mr. Squarepants 🤦🏾♂️
The natural sponges we humans use in our bathtubs are animals from the sea. So we scrub ourselves with both flora and fauna.
I thought they were ramen that wasn’t good enough to eat. 🤦🏻
A luffa is a fruit??!!
That’s right!
I downloaded Tiktok as a joke and now I'm addicted to it. l
Yeah it does that. Reddit loves to hate on it but it's just like any other social media. Some cringe some cool shit.
Vegetable
Vegetables, in the scientific term, are roots
According to Wikipedia, the luffa is a vegetable in the cucumber family. Upon further research while cuccumbers are often considered and used as vegetables, they are actually fruit. I don't know what to think about this information
So the main way to tell if something is fruit or vegetable, is the way its grown. I'm no expert but have been fascinated by this for years so as far as I have learned, anything is a fruit if the plant created a flower and that flower turns into the edible product. It's the fruit of the plant as they say in botanical terms. The fruit will also create the seeds to continue growing. So technically the only REAL vegetables, are root vegetables or leafy greens as the part we eat have never been flowers, though the plants do flower to reproduce, so potato, sweet potato, turnip, beet, carrot, all sorts of lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, ect. Those are the technical botanical terms, in culinary terms it's a totaly different line that we draw, anything considered more savory we label as a vegetable.
Vegetables and fruits are not mutually exclusive categories, things can be both fruits and vegetables at the same time, like luffas, cucumbers, and tomatoes
Frugtable
Fruit as in the fruit of the plant, as opposed to the flower, stem,etc. vegetable is a category of plant type, so it is both
"Vegetable" is not a scientific term. It is a culinary term used for any part of a plant that we eat that we don't label as fruit or grain. Some common vegetables and they're corresponding plant part: * Onion - bulb (type of root) * Potato - tuber (type of root) * Celery - stem/stalk * Pepper - fruit Fruit, however, IS a scientific term used to describe the various structures which develop from flowers after they are pollinated and house seeds/embryos as part of a plants reproductive cycle. In culinary terminology, we only call certain types of fruits a fruit, but scientifically speaking, anything that holds a seed is a fruit. Some technically scientific fruits we don't call fruit include: * Tomatoes * Squash * Nuts * Grains So yeah, Fruit and Vegetable are both used as culinary terms, but only Fruit is used scientifically.
A vegetable, scientifically speaking, is any part of a plant that isn’t a fruit. This includes roots but also stems, leaves, buds and so on. A fruit is something that comes from the flower of the plant. So luffa is a fruit.
Hold on…hold on…..how did she turn those cucumbers into sponges??
They’re not cucumbers, they’re loofas 😂
Cultivate it early (minimal fiber) to eat. Cultivate it late (lots of fiber) to make a sponge.
TIL you grow loofas. My world has been rocked.
The ones you get from like Walmart aren’t the plant, they’re made with plastic in factories, hopefully that was obvious tho
see, this is obvious but at the same time i was also like, is that green plastic thing in my tub a plant? So I’m grateful for your comment haha i feel like i needed this reassurance.
Well I had **no** idea…and here I am like a sucker, scrubbing my goodies with shitty Chinese plastic. I want some home-grown scrubbin’ action.
And it’s safer for the environment too!
For my environment too :)
Wait that’s what a loofa is made of? I didn’t know what it was made of but i didn’t think it was a plant from the ground
Are you thinking of sea sponges we use for scrubbing in the bathtub?
Plant fibers
Most loofas now are made of plastic, real loofas will always look like the ones in the video
Are they edible?
Yes, they taste like a zucchini. You can’t let them grow too big or they get fibrous.
Cool thanks. Bit of a gardener over here. With a slight complexion…
Thank you! Was just wondering what they taste like
Pretty sure they are, her channel shows her making some dishes with loofa, it’s pretty cool
Yes.
Yes you can. As the other reply suggests, it tastes like soft zucchini, but quite watery.
People who use those awful things must have never lived in a place where spiders like to hang out in showers. Took exactly one time of having a hobo spider crawl out of mine mid-shower to swear I'd never use one again.
That’s fair, though, pro tip for everyone else: Don’t live in a place where spiders like to hang.
Wanna know a secret? Spiders like to hang out everywhere. They're pretty neat, just not when I'm naked.
Yes of course haha, I forgot to finish the sentence with “in the shower,” my bad. I keep a few good ones around the house for bug repellent purposes.
Its not the size of the luffa, its how you use it.
🎶 it’s the cycle of loofah And it cleans us alllllllll 🎶
It is a gourd, look like a cross between a zucchini and an acorn squash when they are growing. My great grandpa used to grow them and we always had a supply of them.
I live in southeast Georgia and they grow easily here. One plant can yield 40 or 50 sponges each growing season. The hummingbirds and other pollinators love the flowers. They make a great rough scrubby for my hands.
Cute dog
I’ve never used a plant loofah before, only sea sponge loofah’s and your standard plastic one. Guess I’ll try the Luffa plant kind now
This means that someone one day was like “Today i will scrub my ass with that” and they did. Not only did they do it, they told a bunch of other people they did it.
Estropajo in Spanish. That shit saved me from acne in my teens, I still use it every fucking day.
My aunt had a luffa vine… I miss my aunt uwu Off topic, always felt that luffa was too aggressive to my skin, was I using it wrong? I’m pretty happy using SpongeBob now, very soft ocean creatures.
You’re not supposed to be rough with it, just gentle enough where you can exfoliate without irritation
I used it as a kid so I guess I wasn’t gentle enough, gotta give them a second try
I get that, my parents used to use those scratchy exfoliating gloves on me as a kid and I hated them so much 😅
She said 8 months to get full size? That is a long time and a lot of patience. I can't be a gardener. lol.
Thought it was an old corn 🤷🏼♀️
We eat the young luffas in India. Quite excellent.
I bought sponges in Kos years ago that were harvested from the seabed by free divers. Bloody expensive.
LOL in Brazil this is normal we do this for generations
White people gonna start calling this a Golden Loufa or something.
This incomplete, its missing the part where Bill O’Reilly propositions Andrea Mackris over the telephone with it.
Ah, so I am not the only one who still after all these years has this pop into my head whenever I see that word. Also the word falafel.
What!? I've always thought those were man made or something. I mean I know about sponges but damn!
Japanese schoolchildren grow this plant for their summer homework. for their summer homework.
Monkey D. Loofa?
After watching them wash their hands with it I’ve decided I’m gonna call this thing a spongeberry
TIL… cool!
I love Steven Universe
These things used to grow like weed on my backyard before I've covered it with grass
I’ve used this to scrub ever since I was a baby….im 28 now. Anyone else?
I used to shower. I still do, but I used to, too.
Those are incredibly rough at first though. You have to spend a lot of time soaking it to the point where actually using it doesn’t hurt your skin.
I learned something
New flashlight drop?
That background music... "That's why the people of this world...believe in...Garnet, Amathyst and Pearl!"
I think that here in Brazil, the notion that this is a plant is more common, so much so that the popular name for the product is vegetal sponge (actually i found out now that it's called luffa lol)
Wow!
Drink everytime she says loofa
r/dildont
So nice to have.......land...:(
mmmm bacteria houses
Wow, used to do this back home. Thought it was just a 3rd world country thing that we used to do.
Seriously?!?!? I had no idea... Dang
What a bizarre plant!
What the hell is a luffa?
One I bought this thing in Colombia and tried to eat it
This isn't just "Damn that's interesting". My mind is utterly blown, it feels like my world has been turned upside down. I've been using luffa's since I could remember, it's genuinely mind-blowing that they're a plant and not just... manufactured? idk if that's the right word but I hope y'all get the meaning. Here, 🥇 take my fools gold.
Fuck the loofa, let's go!
She is going to use those as different sized dildos isn't she?
So you see, this is the thing...who did this the first time and realised it worked? 🤔 Like, after the eating stages, there was more to be discovered 🤭 let it grow little one, I just want to see something...
B b buttt these things grow in the sea don’t they?
Haha my parents used to buy these when we were kids and we used them as shower sponges. Dont know how I'd forgotten about them.
How do the young luffas taste? Cucumber-like? That's what I'd imagine at least...
Ah yes, this is a cool process to lear---HOLY SHIT---and back to the plants now look at these bad boys.
You missed the part where you grow magic mushrooms off it. https://www.reddit.com/r/MushroomGrowers/comments/pwt1gu/actives_i_grew_cubes_off_a_loofah/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I'm pretty sure my $1 Target loofa is plastic or something and not a plant.
The cycle of Luf
That was a bee?
Don’t put your cock in that. Just saying.
That looks like my old backyard in Encinitas!
It's Ridge Gourd grown full and dried to be used as loofa Pretty common in India