Bitter melon, named for its bitterness, is also called cool melon. Clear summer heat, clear the eyes, detoxification. Treatment of fever, heatstroke, dysentery, red eye pain, swelling and pain, dengue, malignant sores. Bitter melon is also a summer vegetable used to remove heat. Bitter melon is rich in vitamin B, C, calcium, iron, etc. Li Shizhen said that bitter melon has the effect of "removing evil heat, relieving fatigue, clearing the mind and brightening the eyes, and benefiting the qi and yang". According to research findings, it has obvious hidden blood sugar effect, has a certain effect on diabetes. It also has a certain anti-virus ability and anti-cancer effect.

Bitter melon is warm when eaten cooked and cold when eaten raw, so those with a weak spleen and a cold stomach should not eat it raw. In addition, pregnant women should eat with caution.

A bitter gourd contains 0.4% of the weight loss special ingredients such as gold --- high energy lipids. Eat a few bitter melon a day, no matter how to eat, how to sleep will not get fat.

If it is too bitter to do before a little water, and then into the dish is not so bitter, but it is recommended not to do so. In fact, some practices to do out of the bitter melon is not very bitter, such as bitter melon roast pork.