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Bitter gourd flavored Non-Alcoholic Wheat Beer (NAWB) exhibited antidiabetic properties by modulating carbohydrate metabolizing enzymes and upregulates insulin and GLUT-2 mRNA expressions in High Fat Diet/Streptozotocin (HFD/STZ) induced diabetic rats

open access: yesFood Production, Processing and Nutrition, 2023
To improve the control of Type 2 diabetes (T2D), this study investigated the potential benefits of an alcohol-free beer flavored with bitter gourd leaves, a plant with proven hypoglycemic properties.
Gbenga P. Akerele   +4 more
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Pathogenicity and aggressiveness of Fusarium oxysporum Schl. in bottle gourd and bitter gourd

open access: yesPlant Protection Science, 2010
Fusarium oxysporum is responsible for a large range of diseases on economically important crops such as bitter gourd and bottle gourd. Pathogenicity and aggressiveness of F.
Christian Joseph Rili Cumagun   +3 more
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Bitter Gourd: Breeding and Genomics

open access: yesVegetable Science, 2023
Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) is known tropical cucurbitaceous vegetable for its nutritional, medicinal and curative properties. The immature fruit is valued for its bitter taste and richness in calcium, phosphorous, iron, copper, potassium and vitamins A, B1, B2 and C.
K. K. Gautam   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Taste testing bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) grown in Aquaponics

open access: yesEcocycles, 2018
Bitter gourd which is imported into the UK from abroad has been shown to be suitable to be grown in aquaponics under greenhouse conditions. Whilst research has indicated the plant grows well under greenhouse aquaponics conditions, as yet there has been ...
Mohammed Khandaker, Benz Kotzen
doaj   +1 more source

Genome-Wide Analysis of Simple Sequence Repeats in Bitter Gourd (Momordica charantia)

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2017
Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) is widely cultivated as a vegetable and medicinal herb in many Asian and African countries. After the sequencing of the cucumber (Cucumis sativus), watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), and melon (Cucumis melo) genomes ...
Junjie Cui   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Immediate effect of bitter gourd, ash gourd, Knol-khol juices on blood sugar levels of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A pilot study

open access: yesJournal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 2017
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the immediate effect of bitter gourd, Knol-khol, and ash gourd juices on blood glucose level among Type II diabetes mellitus patients.
G. Selvakumar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A comprehensive review on bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) as a gold mine of functional bioactive components for therapeutic foods

open access: yesFood Production, Processing and Nutrition, 2022
Bitter gourd is a tropical wine grown mainly in India, China and South East Asia. The plant is cultivated mainly for its fruit part which is edible. Bitter gourd is unaccepted widely due to its bitter taste. Nevertheless, the fruit is a source of several
K. S. Gayathry, Jenny Ann John
doaj   +1 more source

Study on drying of bitter gourd slices based on halogen dryer

open access: yesResearch in Agricultural Engineering, 2023
In this study, the drying of bitter gourd slices with a halogen dryer was done at different thicknesses of bitter gourd (3, 5, and 7 mm) and temperatures (60, 65, and 70 °C).
Dinh Anh Tuan Tran   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Morphological and Molecular Analysis Using RAPD in Biofield Treated Sponge and Bitter Gourd [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Plants are known to have sense and can respond to touch, electric and magnetic field. The present study was designed on the sponge gourd (Luffa cylindrica) and bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) seeds with respect to biofield energy treatment.
Branton, Alice   +3 more
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Detection and molecular characterization of phytoplasma affecting vegetables in Eastern Visayas, Philippines

open access: yesAnnals of Tropical Research, 2020
Phytoplasma-like diseases were observed affecting bitter gourd, Loofah, string bean, “Baguio” bean, cucumber, and tomato in Eastern Visayas, Philippines. The infected vegetables commonly show little leaf/witches’ broom symptoms.
Lucia M. Borines   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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