It can be grown as a room flower, in the country or in the garden for decorative purposes (flowers and fruits of momordiki look very elegant), as well as a vegetable crop or a medicinal plant.
Ingatshalwa njengegumbi legumbi, ezweni noma ensimini yezinhlobonhlobo zokuhlobisa (izimbali nezithelo zomama zibukeka zinhle kakhulu), kanye nesitshalo noma imithi yokwelapha.