Despite its hot orange hue and devilish spikes, the horned melon is actually one cool fruit. The pulp is a vivid green and stuffed with seeds. The flavor is a cross between a cucumber and a zucchini.

“It’s like this weird martian fruit,” Thomas Raquel said of horned melon, a spiky, bright yellow-orange fruit filled with lime-green pulp and white seeds. “It looks like an alien . . . kind of scary.” ...

Its thick emergency-orange shell and sharp spikes make this horned melon look more like a torture device from another world than it does a fruit. It’s the type of produce you know is only around today ...

The highly nutritious horned melons can go a long way in reducing the incidence of malnutrition, which is a major public health concern in India. Preeti Rahul talks about it's health benefits and ...