Bitter Melon Extract

Latin Name                     Momordica charantia L.

Family                         Cucurbitaceae

Part of the Plant Used            Fruit

Product Introduction

The plant Momordica charantia belongs to the family of cucuritaceae and is commonly known as bitter melon. The young tender fruit is edible. Because of the taste it acquires the fame painstakingly. It is native to tropical parts of Asia, and widely distributed in the subtropics, the tropics and the  warm temperate zone. The bitter melon is rich in Vitamin B, C, the calcium, the iron and so on. Li Shi Zhen, the medical scientist in China’s Ming Dynasty, said that the bitter melon had the effect of" eliminating the evil heat, alleviating fatigue, purifying the mind, clearing the vision, tonifying qi and fortifying yang ". According to the modern research discovery, it can lower blood sugar obviously. It has certain curative effect to diabetes. It has certain effects to viral diseases and cancer.

Active Ingredients

Phytoinsulin, Triterpenes, Elaterin, Charantin,Amino acids & Vitamins

Product Specification
20% Total Saponins  /25:1

Different specs of Bitter Melon Extracts available 

Physiological Functions

1. The bitter melon, containing the balsam pear multi-peptide class material, can lower blood sugar fast, prevent and improve diabetes' complication, regulate blood fats, and reinforce immunity.
2. 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.
3. The effective component in the bitter melon may suppress normal cell's cancer and the promotion sudden change cell's restoration, has certain antitumoral effect.
   1. Elaterin in the bitter melon’s is honored as “the fat murderer”, which can ingest the fat and lower the polysaccharide.

Applications

Pharmaceutical stuff

Functional food and food additive