Many people know melon, eat melon and love melon. But majority of the people don’t know the benefits of melons. But today we shall concentrate much on the benefits of bitter melon.

In some tribes of Uganda, bitter melons are called akalera or ampalaya. In American English bitter melons are called bitter gourd.

Bitter melons are considered the safest fruit, in as food and medicine are concerned.

Bitter melons helps to disinfect  and heal cuts, wounds and burns, helps deal with poor appetite, helps in the treatment of intestinal warms and diarrhea, checks some cancers, enhances and the body’s resistance to infections, serves as an effective antioxidant, antibacterial and antipyretic.