Bitter gourd cooked food can be nourishing the liver AIDS

Bitter native tropical Asia, to flesh, flesh is bitter and name.

 
Interestingly, if bitter gourd cooked with other foods, fried, roasted pork, such as bitter gourd, bitter but not into the meat, so there are "Gentlemen food" reputation. Bitter melon has a bitter tenderness, but the old melon sweet. This is because the tender from the glycoside bitter melon, the taste is very bitter, to the mature fruit, sugar, glucoside is broken down, bitter taste disappears. In the red jelly around the seeds, sugar, sweet as honey, children were often rushed to eat.
Traditional medicine, bitter gourd, sang, cold, Cooked is warm. Raw food Qingshu Xiehuo, antipyretic Chufan; cooked nourishing Zi liver, spleen and kidney Run can Chuxie hot solution Laofa, pure heart and eyesight, Qi impotence.

 
Can ease fever, polydipsia, heat stroke, fever, dysentery, prickly heat and so on. People often use bitter gourd in the summer heat Qu Shu, eyesight detoxification. Meanwhile, the bitter gourd is rich in dietary fiber and vitamin C, tomatoes are the equivalent of nearly 3 times. While vitamin C is an excellent antioxidant, can increase stress ability to reduce the risk of cancer occurrence. In addition, bitter melon also contains bitter glycosides, amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, carotene, B vitamins and so on.

 
But to eat bitter melon should also be careful not to damage Insufficiency of the gas. Despite the hot summer weather, but people must not eat too much bitter food, and preferably with a pungent foods (such as chili, pepper, onion, garlic), it can avoid the bitter taste into the heart, helps to benefit lung.