Bitter gourd ripens in July and August and is a popular seasonal vegetable in summer. Because it contains mogroside and momordicoside, it has a special bitterness, which is also the most common bitterness of many people.

The extraction of momordica charantia polysaccharide, momordica charantia flavonoids and other components from momordica charantia has been proved to have certain hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, antiviral and antitumor effects by in vitro and animal experiments. Therefore, bitter gourd is often regarded as a magical vegetable with multiple functions. But the fact is not so magical.

2. Lotus plumule

It should be noted that lotus plumule has low toxicity and is not an ordinary food. In 2008, the former Ministry of Health (now the Health and Family Planning Commission) said in its reply that lotus plumule contains a variety of bioactive substances, and there is no use history and food safety certificate as a food raw material in China.