The snap melon, or phut (फूट), is a long, pale, low-sugar South Asian melon — the fruit of the trailing gourd vine Cucumis melo var. momordica, a monsoon-season "vegetable melon" of the Momordica group. Named for flesh so soft and fibrous that a ripe fruit cracks or "snaps" open of its own accord, it is barely sweet, mealy and cucumber-fresh, and is eaten across India and Pakistan as much as a vegetable and a cooling summer drink as a dessert fruit.