Generally, bitter gourd seeds are soft when they are tender, just like the seeds in small watermelons, as long as you don't lick your teeth. You can't eat it with your hands. As for the film on the surface of the seed, it turns red or reddish, indicating that bitter gourd is mature and old, and can only eat melon meat, not seeds.
2 The nutritional value of bitter gourd seeds is 1, and the efficacy of bitter gourd seeds can be used as medicine after being taken out and dried. After taking medicine, it tastes bitter and sweet, and has an important role in warming kidney and strengthening yang. It is usually used to recuperate people with kidney-yang deficiency, and has a good therapeutic effect on frequent urination and enuresis caused by kidney-yang deficiency and male impotence.
2. Bitter gourd seeds can lower blood sugar, which can be used to treat human hyperglycemia and diabetes. Momordica charantia seeds contain a lot of momordicin, which can not only reduce blood sugar content, but also improve islet function. Usually, when needed, you can fry bitter gourd seeds in a pot until the surface turns yellow, then take them out and grind them into powder, and take them directly with warm water.
3. Bitter gourd seeds can cool blood and prevent heatstroke. Bitter gourd seed is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine which can cool blood and prevent heatstroke, especially suitable for people in summer. In summer, when people suffer from heatstroke and headache, they can directly put bitter gourd seeds into the pot and add water to fry them. The decocted liquid can be used to make tea, and it can be drunk several times a day, which can quickly relieve the symptoms of heatstroke.
Dried bitter gourd can be cooked and eaten in soup, and there are many ways to do it.
1, soup: 30 grams of dried bitter gourd, 400 grams of ribs, 3 pieces of red dates 10, oyster sauce, boiled with appropriate amount of water and seasoning for 2-3 hours, with unique flavor.
2. Stew: 50 grams of dried bitter gourd, soak in warm water for 5- 10 minute, squeeze out the water, add 250 grams of pork or ribs, stew together for 10- 15 minute, and add a proper amount of seasoning to serve.
If you want to keep the taste of summer, you can also dry bitter gourd and use it when cooking. Soak dried bitter gourd until soft, wash it, stir-fry it with vegetables, or stew it with ribs and pork belly.
4 taboos for eating bitter gourd People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat more, and eat bitter gourd raw. Bitter gourd is a cold product. Usually, people with loose stool, excessive urine, loss of appetite, chills, pale complexion and heavy pulse are mostly yang deficiency or spleen and stomach weakness. Such people should not eat bitter gourd often, otherwise they are prone to symptoms such as upper abdominal discomfort, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, and even vomiting and diarrhea.
Pregnant women should be careful to eat bitter gourd, which contains quinine. Excessive consumption will stimulate uterine contraction and cause miscarriage.
Preschool children should not eat too much bitter gourd. Children are pure yang, often with a stomach surplus and a spleen deficiency. In addition, children's self-control ability is poor, so overeating bitter gourd is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach.