How about eating too much bitter melon
Bitter melon contains more oxalic acid, oxalic acid can be combined with calcium in food, affecting the body's absorption of calcium. If you eat a lot of bitter melon for a long time, it will lead to calcium deficiency. Therefore, bitter melon is not advisable to eat more. In order to overcome this shortcoming of bitter melon, before cooking bitter melon, it is best to cut it first and soak it in boiling water, which can remove some of the oxalic acid, so that its adverse reactions are greatly reduced.
Bitter melon eat more will be poisoned
General will not be poisoned, but if the bitter melon allergy, may cause allergic reactions. Bitter melon has summer, relieve fatigue, eyesight, detoxification and other health effects, is also one of the varieties of off-season vegetables in summer and fall. There are no ingredients in bitter melon that can make people poisoned, and there has never been any information about poisoning from eating bitter melon raw. However, because of the cold nature of bitter melon, so the spleen and stomach cold people should not eat bitter melon, pregnant women do not eat bitter melon. If the vegetables sprayed with pesticides, and did not pass the safety interval on the market supply, it is possible to cause the impact on human health.
What is the harm of eating too much bitter melon 1. lead to diarrhea
Bitter melon cold, cold food, eat too much will aggravate the body's cold, especially their own spleen and stomach cold, weak, easy to diarrhea of the crowd to eat too much bitter melon, it is easy to injure the spleen and stomach, prone to nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other discomforts.
2. cause gastrointestinal discomfort
Bitter melon taste bitter, gastrointestinal stimulation, if long-term consumption of large quantities, especially raw, is easy to lead to gastrointestinal discomfort, dyspepsia, and may increase the risk of gastrointestinal diseases.
3. Lead to miscarriage
Bitter melon contains quinine, which can stimulate the contraction of the uterus, if the pregnant woman consumes an excessive amount of bitter melon, it may lead to miscarriage.
4. Affect the absorption of calcium
Bitter melon contains oxalic acid, which combines with calcium to form insoluble calcium oxalate, so if you eat too much bitter melon, it will prevent the absorption of calcium in food. If you eat a lot of it for a long time, it will lead to calcium deficiency.
5. lead to lower blood sugar
Bitter melon contains a called "polypeptide-P" similar to insulin substances, with the function of lowering glucose, if you eat a lot of bitter melon for a long time, may lead to lower blood glucose, especially low blood sugar itself is the crowd is not advisable to eat more bitter melon.