While this vegetable is not very pretty or delicious, the uses of bitter melon are enough to make it noticed, eaten and studied. Also called bitter gourd, balsam pear or wild cucumber, bitter melon is not that popular in the West primarily due to its taste and availability. It is the most bitter of all [...]
The bitter melon is not the prettiest, the most popular or most mouth-watering vegetable you can find. It looks like a withered cucumber and tastes so bitter that you should be careful tasting it for the first time. It is much more popular for its nutritional value than for its taste. Boiling, soaking or juicing [...]
Bitter melon or bitter gourd or Ampalaya is one of the most nutritious and medicinally rich vegetables. There is a problem, though. Its name, taste and physical appearance are not very inviting. There’s nothing in this vegetable’s immediate presentation that would make you desire to consume it. It looks like a warty cucumber with acne [...]
Bitter melon, a.k.a. bitter gourd or ampalaya, is the most bitter of all fruits. One has got to wonder how people learned to ingest it. To ask it plainly, who the heck first thought that this superlatively bitter fruit is edible? Is it helpful to the human body at all? What are the bitter melon [...]
The bitter melon is Asian, and growing it in cold countries such as the United States can be a challenge. It is a popular vegetable in China, India, and countries in Southeast Asia, as well as the Caribbean, Also called bitter gourd, the bitter melon is gaining popularity elsewhere in the world for its supposed [...]