Before the Ming Dynasty, ancestors were not recorded in medical books. In the Ming Dynasty, ancestors were listed in Herbs for Disaster Relief and Compendium of Materia Medica. Everyone said that bitter gourd was brought from Nanyang Islands by Sambo eunuch when he went to the Western Ocean.
Ancestors are named after their taste, but the bitter word is not pleasant to hear, and Cantonese also call them cold melons (Cantonese don't call cold melons just bitter melons, but later foreigners or mainlanders call them cold melons when they come to Guangdong).
Ancestors have some tumor-like protrusions, so they are also called melons; The face of the ancestors (melon noodles) is wrinkled, like litchi, so it is also called brocade litchi.
Shishan Dading Bitter Melon appeared in Tanbian Village, Shishan, Foshan more than 60 years ago, and it has been more than half a century since my generation. Our ancestors were called "Lei Gong chisel" by the local people because of their big heads and feet, and later they were called "big-topped bitter gourd" because of their increasingly round shapes and large and round melon tops.
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Nutritional value of bitter gourd.
According to the research, eating more bitter gourd has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying, and storing blood sugar, and has certain antiviral ability and cancer prevention effect, so it is the best food for diabetic patients.
Authentic big-topped bitter gourd ladle, with less meat thickness, big top and short body, looks like a Lei Gong chisel, like an enlarged version of green pepper. The appearance is green, the taste is crisp and the taste is sweet.
Its sugar and vitamin D are 65,438+00% higher than those of ordinary bitter gourd, which has a very strong effect on its stamina and fire reduction.
Baidu encyclopedia-bitter gourd with big top