Because the bitter melon contains more oxalic acid and bitterness, so eat directly with a certain bitter taste, it is recommended that before frying can be cut up in hot water blanching slices of bitter melon for a while, in order to remove the bitter substances contained in it, so that fried out of the bitter melon will not be bitter and delicious.
2, saltIf you want to bitter melon is not bitter, you can also cut the bitter melon slices in the amount of salt, the bitter melon with salt a few minutes, and then use your hands to squeeze the bitter water, and finally cleaned with water can be, so that the bitterness of the bitter melon will basically be removed clean.
2 Why some bitter melons are bitter and some are notRelated to the maturity of the bitter melon.
Bitter melon immature time is green, this time the bitter melon contained in the oxalic acid and bittersweet content is relatively high, so eat will be more bitter, but this time the nutritional value and medicinal value of the bitter melon is also the highest, so generally are to eat green bitter melon is mainly.
And when the bitter melon slowly matured, the color will change from green to yellow and then to red, which contains the content of oxalic acid and bittersweet will also slowly decline, so the taste will not be too bitter.
3 Where is the bitterest part of the bitter melonThe white flesh.
The bitter taste of bitter melon is mainly caused by two substances, one of which is melon bittersweet, which is unique to melon plants, mainly in the form of glycosides, and the other substance is wild cucumber juice enzyme, which causes the appearance of bitterness when both substances are present at the same time.
So the bitter melon itself is a more bitter substance, and the bitter melon cut in half, you can find a lot of white melon flesh, these melon flesh is the bitter melon in the most bitter place, in the consumption of the knife before the need to remove all these melon flesh, after this treatment of the bitter melon eat up will not be too bitter.
4 Eat bitter melon seeds will be poisonedGenerally not.
Bitter melon seeds do not contain toxic substances, in general, if you accidentally eat the seeds of bitter melon, it will not cause human poisoning, do not need to worry too much.
However, the texture of bitter melon seeds is relatively hard, after consumption will cause a greater burden on the digestive system, for some digestive function is not good for some people to consume bitter melon seeds may appear after abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea and other indigestion symptoms, so it is generally not recommended to consume bitter melon seeds.