Nutritional value of bitter gourd
1, bitter gourd is rich in vitamin C, and every 100 grams of bitter gourd contains 56 mg of vitamin C. It has the functions of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membrane, preventing atherosclerosis, improving stress ability and protecting heart.
2. Bitter gourd is rich in bitter glycoside and bitter essence, and bitter essence is known as "fat killer" which can reduce the pinch of fat and polysaccharide.
3. Bitter gourd contains a substance similar to insulin-polypeptide-P.
4. Bitter gourd also contains a protein lipid substance, which can stimulate and enhance the ability of immune cells in animals to swallow cancer cells, and it can play an anti-cancer role in vivo together with quinine in alkaloids.
5. Momordica charantia contains momordica charantia saponin, which has medicinal and health-care functions such as lowering blood sugar, lowering blood fat, resisting tumor, preventing osteoporosis, regulating endocrine, resisting oxidation, resisting bacteria and improving human immunity.