still need to blanch, or bitter melon inside too much oxalic acid.
The reason why you need to blanch the bitter melon before eating, this is because the bitter melon oxalic acid content is relatively high, per 100 grams of bitter melon contains 459 milligrams. These oxalic acid and the body's calcium combined to form calcium oxalate, the body is certainly harmful and not beneficial. If you blanch the bitter melon with boiling water, you can remove most of the oxalic acid in the bitter melon, but also will make the bitter melon bitter flavor to reduce some.
2 bitter melon how to fry delicious not bitter1, mixed fried: the bitter melon and chili pepper fried together, can reduce the bitter taste. Bitter gourd washed and shredded, frying pan on the fire, do not put oil, pot hot bitter gourd silk poured into the pot to stir fry, such as too dry can add a little water, stir frying pot to be used. Then hot frying pan sautéed chili pepper, and then the fried bitter melon silk into the stir-fry, add the right amount of salt and sugar, out of the pan.
2, water blanching: cut the bitter melon into cubes, first boiled in water, and then put into cold water to soak, so that the bitter taste can be eliminated, but also lost the flavor of the bitter melon.
3, chilled: that is, after the bitter melon sliced in ice water soaked for a period of time and then take out, so that the bitter flavor can reduce some. Or put it in the freezer.
4, water bleaching: the bitter melon cut open, remove the seeds, cut into strips, and then rinsed with cool water, wash while gently pinched with the hand, wash for a while and then change the water to wash again, and so on three or four times repeatedly rinsed. The bitter juice will be lost with the water. Such a good deal of bitter melon fried, delicious flavor, slightly bitter and sweet.
3 What are the benefits of eating bitter gourd1, bitter gourd taste bitter, cold, there is a summer to get rid of boredom, heat, detoxification, eyesight, lowering blood sugar, tonifying the kidneys, spleen, beneficial to the yang, and improve the immune system effect.
2, anti-cancer, anti-virus effect, on the treatment of dysentery, sores and swelling, fever and thirst, prickly heat too much, conjunctivitis, urination and other diseases have a certain role. In addition, it can accelerate wound healing, but also make the skin tender and smooth.
3, reduce blood sugar: the fresh juice of bitter melon, containing bitter melon glycosides and insulin-like substances, has a good hypoglycemic effect, is the ideal food for diabetics.