Lower your blood sugar naturally, soothe digestive disorders, and prevent infections — even cancer. With these capabilities, it’s no wonder bitter melon is considered a superfood. But chances are, you ...

In the Long Beach community of Carmelitos, Richie Huang’s gardener father has positioned little protective paper hats over the ripening bitter melon. Even though this is a sun-loving tropical vine ...

I see lots of familiar things on my early-morning run through the neighborhood. Neighbors walking with their dogs and morning coffee and children weighed down by backpacks waiting for the school bus ...

Global Growers is a network of community farms and gardens with more than 250 international growers. This network has small and large garden patches all over metro Atlanta, and is responsible for ...

Bitter melon, also known as Karela or bitter gourd, is a unique vegetable that has been cherished for its medicinal properties for centuries. Despite its bitter taste, bitter melon is celebrated as a ...

Bitter melon extract, a common dietary supplement, exerts a significant effect against breast cancer cell growth and may eventually become a chemopreventive agent against this form of cancer, ...

Bitter melon soup pairs the sharp taste of the melon with pork and fish, a symbolic dish for Tet in southern Vietnam that speaks to overcoming hardships. Bitter melon soup holds cultural significance ...

Exoticism is all about perspective. I roll my eyes when foodies express profound amazement for an ingredient or a dish that is unfamiliar to white people. Most recently, I stumbled upon Jennifer ...

As its name promises, bitter melon is very bitter. Angela Dimayuga salts it to tame its bitterness and pairs it raw with tart, crisp green tomato. This dish is too intense to eat on its own; it serves ...

In Chinese cuisine, "gwa" - usually translated as squash or melon - covers a wide variety of vegetables and fruits such as watermelon, fuzzy melon, winter melon, Chinese okra and bitter squash. In ...

A staple of Chinese and Indian cooking, these gourds (botanically, Momordica charantia) with skin like toads grow on climbing vines that can reach 12 feet. The Chinese and Indian varieties differ ...