Raw food is not recommended. Because loofah is cool, it is not good for the spleen and stomach to eat raw, and it contains a bitter quality of loofah. Eating loofah raw is bitter and needs heating to remove it, so it tastes bad.

Some loofahs are bitter, because they contain an alkaloid, which usually causes poisoning symptoms within half an hour to several hours after eating.

Mild people suffer from dry mouth, dizziness, nausea, fatigue and lethargy, while severe people suffer from nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, dehydration, bloody stools, and serious life worries, so bitter gourd can't be eaten raw.

Luffa contains B vitamins to prevent skin aging and vitamin C to whiten skin, which can protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so Luffa juice is called "Beauty Water".

The content of vitamin C in Luffa is high, which can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiency.

Because of the high content of vitamin B in towel gourd, it is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people. The juice of the stem of Luffa has the special function of keeping skin elastic and can beautify and wrinkle.

Luffa extract has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and a kind of anti-allergic substance, diarrhea alkyd, is also extracted from Luffa tissue culture solution, which has strong anti-allergic effect.

References:

China Food Network? Can loofah be eaten raw

References:

Baidu encyclopedia? loofah