Bitter melon is the most bitter fruit of all. Its alligator-skin-like green exterior makes you wonder if there is something exotically unique about this fruit-vegetable, or some sort of mystery concealed within that forbidding shell. It is oblong like a cucumber except for its bumps and warts. Inside, it is not as juicy as the [...]
What is the bitter gourd vegetable? It is, strictly speaking, neither a melon nor a vegetable. It is a vine belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, which makes it a cousin to the cucumber, squash and pumpkin. Even if it is commonly referred to as a vegetable, owing to its appearance, the green elongated cucumber-like vegetable [...]
Bitter melon produces hypoglycemic compounds and natural insulin-like substances to lower blood sugar level in the blood of diabetic persons, thereby controlling and managing diabetes mellitus. About a third of the world’s population, around 170 million persons, suffer from diabetes. It is a debilitating illness that weakens muscles and joints because the human body fails [...]
Bitter melon is the most bitter of all fruits and vegetables. It is so bitter that aphids, caterpillars and insects don’t want to have anything to do with its shoots and leaves. You can never find a bunch of bitter melon leaves with any of these vermin. The bitter melon leaves make nutritious and delicious [...]
Bitter melon juice is the most therapeutic juice of all because of the natural contents of the bitter melon fruit. Bitter melon is a vine belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, and therefore a cousin of the cucumber, squash and pumpkin. It does resemble the green elongated cucumber, except for its warts, bumps and ridges. Its [...]