It turns out that the bitter taste of melon is generally caused by two substances. One is picrin peculiar to melon plants, which mainly exists in melon in the form of glycoside; Another substance is called wild cucumber juice enzyme. If these two substances exist at the same time, melons will have bitter taste. Like watermelon and pumpkin, although they contain picroside, there is almost no wild cucumber juice enzyme, so there is no bitterness at all. Bitter cucumber is caused by these two substances. Eating too much bitter cucumber will lead to poisoning. The bitter taste of bitter gourd is harmless to our health. This is because bitter gourd contains a bitter element completely different from cucumber, and bitter gourd is another bitter element.
Bitter gourd can not only be used as a vegetable, but also as medicine. It has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Eating bitter gourd regularly is beneficial and harmless to human body.