Can I eat bitter melon during confinement?

Bitter melon is a common vegetable in our human life. Strictly speaking, bitter melon is also a kind of melon vegetable. Bitter melon tastes very bitter, as anyone who has eaten it knows. The bitterness of bitter melon can reach the stomach, so most people will not eat bitter melon because they cannot stand the taste. But it turns out that bitter melon is very beneficial to the human body. So, can you eat bitter melon during confinement?

Although bitter melon is bitter, you can still feel a sense of satisfaction after eating it. Although mothers’ bodies have begun to recover slowly during the confinement period, they are still in relatively poor condition overall, so they still need to be well cared for, especially in terms of diet. Now, let’s talk about the question raised above in detail.

You can eat bitter melon during the confinement period. Pregnant women should choose the food they like as much as possible. Bitter melon is a cool vegetable. After giving birth, you should eat vegetables appropriately while eating meat. It helps mothers digest food. If they eat meat every day, they will feel greasy. To ensure the quality of the diet, pregnant women can appropriately supplement milk, eggs, and beans. They should pay more attention to nutrition on daily basis; eat more nutritious foods to make up for the nutrients that were not supplemented in the early pregnancy. Also, do not overwork and do not lift heavy objects.

Every 100 grams of bitter melon contains 94% water, 1 gram of protein, 3.7 grams of carbohydrates, and can provide 71.2 kilojoules of calories. Bitter melon contains a substance with antioxidant properties, which can strengthen capillaries, promote blood circulation and prevent arteriosclerosis. Bitter melon also has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, reducing swelling and detoxifying.

It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying, lowering blood pressure and blood sugar, promoting diuresis and cooling blood, relieving fatigue and clearing the mind, and invigorating qi and strengthening yang. It has the effects of cooling and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and detoxifying, clearing the heart and improving eyesight, invigorating qi and relieving fatigue, and benefiting the kidneys and promoting urination. Bitter melon contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, as well as special ingredients that can clear fat and lose weight, and can accelerate detoxification. According to research, it also has good blood sugar lowering, antiviral and anti-cancer effects. It is mainly used to treat heatstroke, summer heat and thirst, summer boils, excessive prickly heat, dysentery, sores, conjunctivitis, red and swollen eyes, carbuncles and erysipelas, burns, oliguria and other diseases. In addition, bitter melon is high in vitamin C, which can prevent scurvy, protect cell membranes, prevent atherosclerosis, improve the body's stress resistance, and protect the heart.

Through the detailed introduction of bitter melon in the above article, I believe most people should have understood that people who are in confinement can actually eat bitter melon, but they must pay attention to the issue of moderation. Since bitter melon is a cool vegetable, our postpartum women should eat less of it, otherwise it will cause harm to the body and sometimes cause other diseases.