Chayote / Caribbean pumpkin / Okra

CHRISTOPHINE
Other names: chayotte, chouchou
- Family: fruit used as a vegetable
- Edible: yes
- Shape: pear
- Colour: beige
- Size: 15-20 cm
- Season: all year round
- Edible part: pulp under the rind
- Taste: sweet and juicy
- Where to find: Creole gardens, markets
- Culinary use: grated raw into salads, cooked in water, mashed, very popular in gratins and stuffed.
- Therapeutic properties, rimèd razié (home remedy): heals burns, promotes healing of wounds and injuries, aids digestion and intestinal transit. Diuretic action.

GIRAUMON
Other name: giromon
- Family: vegetable, variety of pumpkin endemic to the West Indies
- Edible: yes
- Shape: Turkish cap
- Colour: green and white skin, orange flesh
- Size: 20 to 30 cm in diameter, 15 to 20 cm high
- Season: all year round
- Edible part: flesh
- Taste: less sweet than pumpkin
- Where to find: Creole gardens, markets
- Culinary use: purée, soup, velouté
- Processing :
- Therapeutic properties, rimèd razié (home remedy): rich in vitamin A (antioxidant) and water

GOMBO
- Family: vegetable
- Edible : yes
- Shape: long, conical and pointed
- Colour: green
- Size: 8 to 25 cm long
- Season: all year round
- Edible part: the whole fruit
- Taste: gelatinous texture when cooked
- Where to find: Creole gardens, markets
- Culinary use: boiled or steamed, in salads or as an accompaniment to dishes, thickens soups, ingredient in calalou and fish touffé.
- Processing: flour
- Therapeutic properties, rimèd razié (home remedy): anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, laxative, anti-diabetic.

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