Bitter melon grows in tropical areas, including parts of East Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America, where it is used as a food as well as a medicine. Being a relatively common food item, bitter melon was traditionally used for a dazzling array of conditions by people in tropical regions. Numerous infections, cancer, and diabetes are among the most common conditions it was purported to improve. the leaves and fruit have both been used occasionally to make teas and beer or to season soups in the
Western world. the berries also produce wax, which can be made into candles.
Charantin is a chemical substance obtained from the Asian bitter melon (Momordica charantia), reputed to be responsible for the hypoglycaemic properties of those plants. It was identified by Lolitkar and Rao in 1960.
Physical and Chemical Properties:
Appearance Powder Visual
Taste Typical to botanical Gustatory
Odor Typical to botanical Olfactory
Sieve analysis 80% pass 80 mesh Mesh screen
Moisture content ≤ 5% IR balance
Ash ≤ 5% 2g / 525°C / 5hrs
Application
- Applied in food industry, bitter melon extract powder is mainly used as food additives.
- Applied in health product, It is mainly used as capsules or pills.
- Bitter melon's Vitamin C content is very high. It has functions of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membrane and so on. It can prevent atherosclerosis, sharpen organism stress, and protect the heart.
- the effective component in the bitter melon may suppress normal cell's cancer and the promotion sudden change cell's restoration, has certain antitumor effect.
