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Yes, you can eat bitter melon seeds when cooking bitter melon soup, especially if the bitter melon is young.

For soup:

• Young bitter melon

  • Seeds are white and soft.
  • You can slice the bitter melon and put it directly into the soup.
  • The seeds become even softer after boiling.
  • No need to remove them.

• Mature bitter melon

  • Seeds become yellow/orange/red and harder.
  • The outer seed shell can be tough.
  • Many people remove the hard inner seeds and the white pith because they prefer a smoother texture.
  • The red coating around mature seeds is edible.

A common bitter melon soup preparation:

1. Wash bitter melon
2. Cut lengthwise
3. Remove only hard seeds (optional)
4. Slice
5. Cook with pork ribs / beef / egg / fish
6. Simmer 30-60 minutes

The seeds themselves do not make the soup unsafe. The main reason people remove them is texture and bitterness preference, not toxicity.

For a simple home cooking style: young bitter melon + soft seeds + soup = totally fine to eat.

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