Description
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🐝 Supplier / Origin : Mrs Lam Organic Farm
🔖 Certification : HKORC C13006 (Until Apr 2022)
🌱 Producer introduction :
Mrs. Lam used to be the representative farmer of the annual fisher, farmers and food carnival, with a cheerful and sunny smile. Mrs. Lam and her husband has been running an organic farm for more than 10 years. Although there is a master to help him, one person has to take care of all the work of farming, harvesting and sales. As she gets older, she even falls asleep when she opens the stall. Many friends are very distressed for him. Every Sunday, there are volunteer Ming Je who decide to give up their rest time every weekend to help used to be the representative farmer of the annual fisher, check files. His crops and yields are very rich, and he sells crops at Mei Foo Organic Farm and Kam Sheung Road West Rail Station on Sunday and evening respectively.
Mrs Lam’s Organic Farm is in Sha Tin Hang. In 2015, the government proposed the Kam Tin South Development Plan to recover 12.3 hectares of land and plan to build 8,000 public housing units. Sha Tin Hang, where Mrs Lam is located, is one of the reclaimed farmlands.
Mrs. Lam is now relocated to Ngau Keng Tsuen for re-cultivation.
🛍 Product Information :
"Bitter melon has the reputation of ""the king of melons"" and is also a ""treasure house of vitamin C"". It is also known as bitter melon and is a health food that is often eaten in summer. Bitter melon is a medicinal herb whose fruit and seeds are used. From the appearance, ""bitter melon"" seems to have nothing to do with fruit: although it belongs to the cucurbit family, it does not look like watermelon and cantaloupe, and it does not look like a melon. Bitter melon (also known as bitter squash, balsam-pear, karel in other parts of the world), is not round in shape, tastes sweet, and is similar in shape to cucumbers (although the taste is quite different). For the uninitiated, bitter melon has a strong flavor and a rough rind. Even though this fruit looks ugly and tastes rather pungent, that doesn't mean you can ignore it. After all, people have been cooking with this fruit for hundreds of years because of its many benefits.
Jennifer Mclagan, author of Bitter: A Taste of the World's Most Dangerous Flavor, says: ""Because of the bitter-tasting carotene, bitter melon is very good for you. It has long been thought that bitter melon With its cleansing properties and blood-improving properties, bitter melon is considered by some as a remedy for diabetes. Studies have shown that bitter melon is beneficial in lowering blood sugar levels and fighting viruses, and a study from the University of Colorado Cancer Center claims that bitter melon juice can kill cancer cells."" If the above reasons don't make you try this fruit, its unique taste is also worth a try.
McLagan recommends buying bitter melons in ""small to medium sizes to make sure they're firm enough. Bigger isn't necessarily better, just more bitter.
effect
Our comprehensive Natural Medicines database ranks fruits and vegetables as follows based on scientific evidence: Effective, Mostly Effective, Likely Effective, Likely Not Effective, Mostly Not Effective, Not Effective, Insufficient evidence to assign a rating.
There is insufficient evidence for bitter gourd that cannot be verified:
(Insufficient evidence means that there is no evidence for the interaction between them)
• Diabetes. Research results so far are contradictory or inconclusive. Some studies have shown that bitter melon, bitter melon juice, or bitter melon extract may improve glucose tolerance, lower blood sugar levels, and reduce glycated hemoglobin (a measure of diabetes monitoring, a blood measure that changes over time) in people with type 2 diabetes.
● Psoriasis.
● HIV carriers / AIDS patients.
●Stomach and intestinal diseases.
● Kidney stones.
●Liver disease.
●Skin abscesses and wounds.
●Other symptoms
We need more evidence to rate whether bitter melon is effective for these symptoms."
🥘 Suggested Recipe：
🔅 Notes:
☘️ Preserve vegetables
1. Leafy vegetables and softer vegetables, if packaged, should be placed in the cold box in the original package;
2. Organic Vegetables are more prone to spoilage if they have water droplets. Put the vegetables in a ventilated place to dry or wipe off the water vapor, then wrap the vegetables in slightly damp newspaper and put them in a plastic bag before refrigerating. ;
3. Organic vegetables do not use preservatives or special treatments. Vegetables are generally stored for three to five days. Some vegetables will decompose enzymes, so they should be eaten as soon as possible.
☘️ How to wash vegetables
1. Wash vegetables before cooking to keep them fresh;
2. It is not advisable to soak the vegetables for too long, and they should be washed first and then cut to avoid the loss of vitamins;
3. Washing vegetables with dilute salt water or Dish Drop can easily remove vegetable insects;
4. Cut vegetables with a stainless steel knife to reduce vitamin loss;
5. Vegetable leaves contain a lot of nutrients, so you should avoid shredding, chopping or grinding the leaves;
6. Immediately after cutting, to avoid the loss of vitamins due to air oxidation.
