Sponsored by: Bitter melon or bitter gourd is a very popular medicinal vegetable that is said to treat diabetes mellitus. It is named “bitter melon” because it definitely bitter. Even caterpillars and insects stay away from bitter melon vine. Its fruits, leaves, and shoots are all bitter yet medicinal and very beneficial. This cucurbit vine [...]
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One of the most nutritious and helpful vegetables is the bitter melon. Also known as bitter gourd, bitter melon is the most bitter of all vegetables. It is actually a fruit because of the seeds inside its green warty pod. It comes by other names such as ampalaya, karela, balsam pear and wild cucumber. It [...]
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One of the least known vegetables is the odd-tasting but medicinal bitter melon. Bitter melon is a cucurbita vine that grows in abundance in India, Indonesia, China, Thailand, the Philippines and other Asian countries. It thrives in tropical or subtropical climate. The bitter melon vine is made up of roots, shoots, leaves and fruits that [...]
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Bitter melon is the bitterest fruit-vegetable you could ever eat. It is so bitter that people ignore it despite its so many nutritional benefits, which is a shame considering how many of these there are. It aids digestion and circulation and treats many common ailments such as menstrual pains, indigestion, constipation, psoriasis and hypertension. It [...]
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The bitterest vegetable you are sure to ever taste is the bitter melon. There is a reason why “bitter” has made it to its name. It is also called bitter gourd and Momordica charantia. The name “charantia” refers to the charantin content of bitter melon that is hypoglycemic. This bitter vegetable has many health benefits, [...]
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Bitter melon and cancer have a few things in common. To many people, they are both bitter and bad news. Also, bitter melon looks like a cucumber suffering from skin cancer. But if you put these two in boxing ring, fortunately, it is the bitter melon that is more likely to win. Bitter melon is [...]
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Bitter melon is not a melon but is definitely bitter. It is a vine belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, a relative of the cucumber, squash, and pumpkin. Its exterior is bumpy and warty, while its interior is dry with a bunch of hard yellow seeds encased in white fluffy lining. Nothing much can be said [...]
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Bitter melon is served and prepared in many ways and one of them is pickled bitter melon. In an attempt to make bitter melon less bitter and more melon-ish, pickling has proven to be the key where most tastes are concerned. Pickled bitter melon is perfect as appetizer or side dish. Here is how you [...]
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If you have not tried bitter melon, you have not tasted the most bitter vegetable in existence yet. Even more importantly, you have not benefited from its very nutritious contents. Tasting its extremely bitter flavor is like volunteering to go through some kind of Asian rite of passage. It’s as bitter as its ugly exterior. [...]
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There are many ways to cook the very nutritious bitter melon and one of the most interesting and creative recipes is the stuffed bitter melon. Traditional Asian wisdom and modern medical research prove that the charantin and polypeptide-P contents of bitter melon lower blood sugar levels. It is rich in potassium, folate, calcium, beta carotene, [...]
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The bitter melon is one of the most unique fruit-vegetables you can find in gardens and vegetable markets. It is distinctly odd-looking. It looks like a regular cucumber but with hard, scaly bumps resembling rough alligator skin. You think you might get pricked while picking up a bitter melon for the first time. It’s as [...]
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Bitter melon is shrouded with so many mysteries and legends primarily for its warty appearance, bitter flavor and a number of uses other than for eating. It is known and now scientifically proven to control diabetes and treat a number of illnesses including breast cancer, cholera and indigestion. While it is truly a detoxifying medicinal [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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