Bitter Gourd (Karela) Juice, Bitter Melon or Karela (Momordica charantia) Bitter gourd is widely used as an edible plant in Asia. Basic Ayurveda Bitter Gourd (Karela) Juice contains important nutrients like iron, phosphorous, magnesium and vitamin to potassium and vitamin C. An excellent source of dietary fibre, it also contains twice the calcium of spinach, beta-carotene of broccoli, and the potassium of a banana. Bitter melon juice showed strong antioxidant and hypoglycemic activities in experimental conditions both in vivo and in vitro. Recent scientific evaluation of these plant extracts also showed potential therapeutic benefit in diabetes and obesity-related metabolic dysfunction in experimental animals and clinical studies.

 A new study has shown that the juice of bitter melon, markedly suppresses the growth of pancreatic tumours. Bitter melon extracts significantly induced death in breast cancer cells and decreased their growth and spread. The research, published in the March 1 edition of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, involved human breast cancer cells exposed to bitter melon extract in the lab. Recent research out of St. Louis University (SLU) shows that bitter melon juice, showing viability in the prevention and treatment of cancer.