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ash gourd — šiurkštusis vaškūnas statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Moliūginių šeimos vaisinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Benincasa hispida), auginamas atogrąžų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Benincasa cerifera; Benincasa hispida; Cucurbita hispida angl.… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
ash gourd — noun a) A vine of the genus Benincasa cultivated throughout Asia. b) A green, fuzzy melon fruit taken from this vine that has sweet white flesh. Syn: fuzzy melon … Wiktionary
ash-pumpkin — šiurkštusis vaškūnas statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Moliūginių šeimos vaisinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Benincasa hispida), auginamas atogrąžų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Benincasa cerifera; Benincasa hispida; Cucurbita hispida angl.… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
wax gourd — šiurkštusis vaškūnas statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Moliūginių šeimos vaisinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Benincasa hispida), auginamas atogrąžų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Benincasa cerifera; Benincasa hispida; Cucurbita hispida angl.… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
white gourd — šiurkštusis vaškūnas statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Moliūginių šeimos vaisinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Benincasa hispida), auginamas atogrąžų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Benincasa cerifera; Benincasa hispida; Cucurbita hispida angl.… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
white gourd — noun a) A vine of the genus Benincasa cultivated throughout Asia. b) A green, fuzzy melon fruit taken from this vine that has sweet white flesh. Syn: ash gourd … Wiktionary
wax gourd — noun a) A vine of the genus Benincasa cultivated throughout Asia. b) A green, fuzzy melon fruit taken from this vine that has sweet white flesh. Syn: ash gourd … Wiktionary
prickly ash — Hercules club Hercules club, Hercules club Hercules club, Hercules club Hercules clubprop. n. 1. (Bot.) A densely spiny ornamental tree (
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Benefits of Ash Gourd/Winter Melon [For Health, Skin, & Hair]
Ash Gourd has its botanical name as Benincasa hispida and is popularly known by other names such as winter melon, fuzzy melon, Chinese watermelon, white pumpkin, and wax gourd. It is a vegetable but also referred to as fruit that is native to Southeast Asia, India, China, and Indonesia.
The hairy surface of the vegetable becomes waxed and gets powdery ash color as it matures. Usually found in oblong to round shape and prominently compared with the size and shape of a watermelon and pumpkin.
Chinese and Indian cuisine add the vegetable’s flesh in various dishes, soups, stews, etc. In Traditional Chinese medicine, the vegetable illustrated different health properties and benefits.
Indian Ayurvedic medicine also makes use of this watery gourd for centuries. However, only a few properties and applications of the ash gourd are affirmed by botanical studies.
Let’s look into the possible and believing healing properties and benefits of ash gourd for overall well being.
Common Names of Ash Gourd
- Botanical Name: Benincasa hispida Tamil Name: நீர் பூசணிக்காய் / Neer Poosanikkai English Name: Ash Gourd Hindi Name: राख लौकी / raakh laukee Kannada Name: ಬೂದಿ ಸೋರೆಕಾಯಿ / Būdi sōrekāyi Malayalam Name: ആഷ് പൊറോട്ട / āṣ peāṟēāṭṭa Telugu Name: బూడిద పొట్లకాయ / Būḍida poṭlakāya Punjabi Name: ਸੁਆਹ ਲੌਕੀ / Su’āha laukī Marathi Name: Rākha Laukī Bengali Name: ছাই লাউ / Chā’i lā’u Gujrati Name: રાઈ લોટ / Rā’ī lōṭa Urdu Name: راکھ لوکی
What is Ash Gourd?
Ash Gourd, commonly known as Winter melon and botanically called Benincasa hispida is a unique melon vegetable mostly used in China and India. Asian cuisine includes this vegetable in curries, soups, and fries.
Appearance
Ash gourd bears big yellow flowers. The leaves are 10 to 20 cm long and have a long hair stem. The fruits usually grow up to 30 cm in diameter. Fresh and young ash gourds have fine hairs in the outer that will disappear as the vegetable matures become waxy outer that increases the shelf life.
The ash gourd’s exterior color may vary between dark green and pale gray based on the cultivated areas. Matured melons have white ash coating their distinctive places. This ash coating is where the vegetable created another name for it, Ash Gourd. The shape of the gourd varies from round to oblong. Mostly, plant propagation is done by seeds.
Taste and Use
Ash gourd tastes like cucumber. The thick flesh of immature vegetables has a sweet taste. There is no virtual taste in the gourd, and that’s why the plant is easily added to different kinds of foods, salads, juices, and smoothies.
Winter melons are consumed as a regular drink on hot days. On colder days, black pepper or honey is added with gourd to reduce its natural cooling effects without wasting the nutrition. Ash gourd have typically eaten raw to get the maximum energy.
History of Ash Gourd
Although the scientists and researchers point out that ash gourds are more likely native to Japan, China, Indonesia, or Indo-Malaysia, the plant’s ancient roots make it hard to find out the precise origin.
However, the countries mentioned above have been using Ash gourd for many decades.
Nutritional Values of Ash Gourd
Like other gourd family plants, the ash gourd seeds, leaves, vegetables, and juice extracts are filled with various nutritional and dietary constituents. Ash Gourd, otherwise called Winter Melon, contains 96% water and low carbs, calories, protein, and fat. But, it is rich in fiber.
Here is the nutritional value of 100 grams serving of Ash Gourd.
| Nutrition | Value / %DV |
|---|---|
| Calories | 86.2 kcal |
| Macronutrients | |
| Total Fat | 3.9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 0.5 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 12.5 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 0.6 g |
| Protein | 2.0 g |
| Cholesterol | 0.0 mg |
| Sodium | 33.0 mg |
| Potassium | 359.1 mg |
| Micronutrients | |
| Vitamins | |
| Vitamin A | 9.8% |
| Vitamin B6 | 11.3% |
| Vitamin C | 30.5% |
| Vitamin E | 1.1% |
| Minerals | |
| Calcium | 5.1% |
| Magnesium | 6.7% |
| Phosphorus | 5.0% |
| Zinc | 7.2% |
| Iron | 5.7% |
| Manganese | 12.5% |
| Iodine | 5.9% |
Ash gourd also has Iron, Magnesium, Copper, Manganese, Phosphorus, and various vitamin C and B complex vitamins such as niacin, riboflavin, and thiamine.
Ash gourd is a good source of carotenoids and flavonoids. These are two antioxidants that are believed to prevent cell damage and specific conditions such as heart diseases and Type 2 diabetes.
13 Possible Health Benefits of Ash Gourd
Ash gourd is often recommended in traditional ayurvedic and Chinese medicines because of its diuretic, laxative, and aphrodisiac properties. It is also said to help improve overall health by increasing energy levels, sharpening the mind, treating mental illness, aids in digestion, and reduces the causes of diseases.
1. Improves Digestion
Ash gourd contains high water, low fiber, and calorie contents, so the vegetable may help ease the digestion and healthily improve body weight.
Many studies affirmed that water-dense and low-calorie vegetables and fruits could be highly helpful in healthy weight loss.
The laxative properties of ash gourd helps regulate the bowel movements and hence reduce discomfort in the gut. Moreover, the vegetable is a rich source of fiber which can create a gel-like substance in our gut that slowly digests the food and makes you feel full for a long time. It also helps to prevent stomach instances like bloating, constipation, and stomach cramps by digesting heavy meals.
People who are following a low-carb diet can include ash gourd in their diet.
2. Ulcers and Intestinal Parasites
Ash gourd is believed to prevent ulcer formations in membranes of the stomach and intestine. Ash gourd is a natural remedy for peptic ulcer. Ash gourd juice with equal amounts of water can be consumed on an empty stomach in the morning for peptic ulcers. After drinking ash gourd juice, don’t take anything between 2 and 3 hours.
The acidity formed by eating spicy foods or long time fasting can be combated by ash gourd juice.
Ash gourd has antimicrobial properties that help remove the harmful bacteria from the stomach and intestine, thereby aid in keeping away the gastrointestinal infections and indigestion.
Shelled ash gourd seeds with coconut milk can be taken to promote tissue growth and prevent tapeworm and other parasitic worms from the stomach.
3. Aids In Weight Loss
All the water-dense vegetables, low calorie, and low carb fruits and vegetables are the best natural remedies for healthy weight loss. If you are working to lose weight, add ash gourd in your low-calorie diet like a juice or stew with many nutrients and low carbs.
More than losing weight, ash gourd has often said to help manage the weight. It treats anorexia in underweight people and helps them get a healthy weight and boost metabolism.
The dietary fiber in ash gourd gives a feeling of fullness that keeps a person away from cravings and helps in fat burning rapidly.
Also Read: 10 Best Herbs for Weight Loss
4. Helps Stop Internal Bleeding
Ash gourd is naturally an anticoagulant, so it helps in controlling bleeding. Though it is often used to stop external bleeding, the gourd can also prevent the internal bleeding effectively. On regular consumption, the ash gourd can stop the nose bleeding that occurs in summer.
Internal bleeding in the kidney causes conditions like Haematuria, i.e., blood in urine, bleeding due to piles, ulcers, and other various internal bleedings that can be controlled by ash gourd juice.
Fresh ash gourd juice mixed with lemon or amla juice gives rapid relief from haematuria and piles.
5. Helps Fight Mental Illnesses
Ash gourd is a natural sedative, which means it can relax and soothe the mind and treat mental illness. It spreads a calming effect on the brain and nervous system; thereby, it can alleviate nerve conditions such as anxiety, insomnia, epilepsy, paranoia, and neurosis.
A daily glass of fresh ash gourd juice can combat all the stress that you get in a day.
6. Sharpness of Mind
Ash gourd contains a cooling effect naturally. As you drink a glass of ash gourd juice every morning, you can see the coolness in your body and alertness in your mind. As per some ayurvedic scriptures, ash gourd on regular consumption can improve the intellectual levels.
You can notice the difference within a week of usage. It improves the sharpness of the mind, and it is pranic. It brings energy to the body and mind without agitation.
7. Increased Energy
Ash gourd juice can bring high energy to our body, and it keeps the nervous system calm. You can get the same energy with coffee but do it with agitation. A glass of ash gourd juice can provide a high amount of energy without agitation.
The pulp of the vegetable is cubed, boiled, and soaked in sugar syrup, which is an edible mixture that tastes like candy. This sweet pulp helps to gain weight, improve heart health, and reduce tuberculosis and anemia, and overall it improves the general weakness.
8. Constipation, Piles, Boils
The anti-inflammatory and cooling effect of ash gourd juice helps to cool down the body. Those who have excess heat in the body can drink this juice daily to reduce the heat and health problems caused by body heat such as constipation, piles, and piles.
9. Augments Heart Function
Being a low source for cholesterol content, ash gourd is included in the daily diet to improve heart health and regulate its functions. In various standard Indian dishes, the vegetable is added after boiling to enhance the blood circulation from and to the heart, improve cardiovascular health, and ensure the proper functioning of cardiac muscles.
10. Detoxifies The Kidneys
Ash gourd induce the usual body waste removal through the excretory system in the body. The vegetable stimulates the fluid secretion in the kidneys, significantly hampers the harmful toxins while ensuring proper hydration in internal organs. Ash gourds encourage routine works of the bladder and kidneys.
11. Strengthens Respiratory Processes
Ash gourd contains intrinsic expectorant properties, which means the vegetable can help to lose and remove excess mucus or phlegm build-ups from respiratory tracts, and thereby, it significantly contributes to regulating the lung functioning and hampers allergies and breathing problems.
12. Complements Ketogenic Diet
Keto diet mainly includes nonstarchy vegetables. Ash gourd is a vegetable with low carb and sugar, so it can be a beneficial ingredient in the keto diet, which gradually lowers the intake of excessive calories. You can easily prepare a ketogenic diet recipe by cutting, boiling, and seasoning a vegetable with salt and pepper that can be regularly taken for lunch.
13. Treats Common Cold
On regular consumption of ash gourd juice, you can get rid of common cold, flu, cough, sinus, and bronchitis. It can also offer better relief from chronic asthma.
However, above are the possible benefits of ash gourd, and there is no scientific evidence to prove some of its healing benefits.
Though some of the studies affirmed a few medicinal properties of ash gourd like anti-ulcer, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, and antimicrobial, all these studies have tested on animals and used an extract of ash gourd’s flesh, vine, juice, or skin instead of the whole vegetable.
And of course, these studies happen in small amounts and are dated. Many effects of ash gourd have not tested on humans yet. So, we need further research to make a definite conclusion.
ash gourd
Смотреть что такое «ash gourd» в других словарях:
ash gourd — šiurkštusis vaškūnas statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Moliūginių šeimos vaisinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Benincasa hispida), auginamas atogrąžų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Benincasa cerifera; Benincasa hispida; Cucurbita hispida angl.… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
ash gourd — noun a) A vine of the genus Benincasa cultivated throughout Asia. b) A green, fuzzy melon fruit taken from this vine that has sweet white flesh. Syn: fuzzy melon … Wiktionary
ash-pumpkin — šiurkštusis vaškūnas statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Moliūginių šeimos vaisinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Benincasa hispida), auginamas atogrąžų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Benincasa cerifera; Benincasa hispida; Cucurbita hispida angl.… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
wax gourd — šiurkštusis vaškūnas statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Moliūginių šeimos vaisinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Benincasa hispida), auginamas atogrąžų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Benincasa cerifera; Benincasa hispida; Cucurbita hispida angl.… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
white gourd — šiurkštusis vaškūnas statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Moliūginių šeimos vaisinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Benincasa hispida), auginamas atogrąžų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Benincasa cerifera; Benincasa hispida; Cucurbita hispida angl.… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
white gourd — noun a) A vine of the genus Benincasa cultivated throughout Asia. b) A green, fuzzy melon fruit taken from this vine that has sweet white flesh. Syn: ash gourd … Wiktionary
wax gourd — noun a) A vine of the genus Benincasa cultivated throughout Asia. b) A green, fuzzy melon fruit taken from this vine that has sweet white flesh. Syn: ash gourd … Wiktionary
prickly ash — Hercules club Hercules club, Hercules club Hercules club, Hercules club Hercules clubprop. n. 1. (Bot.) A densely spiny ornamental tree (
Winter melon — Kundol redirects here. For the Lake, see Kundol Lake. Winter Melon Nearly mature winter melon Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
Cuisine of Kerala — This article is part of the series … Wikipedia
Cuisine of Karnataka — This article is part of the series … Wikipedia
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Ash gourd (Chinese winter melon) nutrition facts
Ash gourd is a large, round to oval fruit pod in the cucurbitaceae family that is eaten as a cooked vegetable and in the confectionary in many Asian countries.
Its pods are fuzzy when immature and develop gray, waxy matter on their surface upon maturity; hence the name ash or wax gourd. Ash gourd is also known by various names such as white gourd, white pumpkin, winter gourd, winter melon, Chinese preserving melon, pith gourd, tallow gourd, and Chinese watermelon.
Scientific name: Benincasa hispida. It is the only member of the genus Benincasa.
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| Ash gourd. Note for gray, waxy skin. |
Ash gourd is an annual vine and has similar growth characteristics as other gourd vegetables. Clay mixed organic soil is best suited for its growth. Trellis support is required for better yield. Upon pollination, golden-yellow flowers develop into large, ovate pods which further develop to achieve maturity in 100-140 days depending upon cultivar varieties. Mature pods can weigh 15-20 pounds.
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| Ash gourd. Pole cultivation. |
Externally, the ash gourd pods feature a tough, green skin that is coated with a layer of white chalky wax. Tiny, fuzzy hairs on the surface will gradually disappear as the fruit matures. On its interior, the thick flesh is white, crisp, juicy, and has a mild, cucumber-like taste.
Ash gourd seeds resemble like that of pumpkins; are oval, flat, and light brown.
Health benefits of Ash gourd
Ash gourd is very low calorie vegetable; just holds 13 cal/100g, relatively same calories as in cucumbers (12 cal/100g). Nonetheless, it carries ample concentrations of vitamins, minerals and fiber that help in overall health nad wellness.
Winter melon peel is a good source of dietary fiber which helps in smooth bowel movements and offers protection against colon cancers by eliminating toxic compounds from the gut.
Ash gourd is gluten-free food items and is one of better alternative food substitute in people suffering from spectrum of gluten-related disorders. Gluten is a protein molecule in foods that causes severe food intolerance in non-celiac (gluten sensitivity) as well as celiac disease patients.
Fresh Ash gourd holds relatively more amounts of vitamin-C (14% of RDA /100 g) than cucumbers. Vitamin-C is a water-soluble anti-oxidant that plays role as immunity booster, collagen synthesis in bones, cartilage, and blood vessels, and aids in the absorption of iron.
It provides small amounts of (5 μg/100 gm) of folates. Folate is an essential element for cell division and DNA synthesis. When taken adequately during early pregnancy, it may help prevent neural-tube defects in the newborn.
Like-wise in winter squash varieties, ash gourd too holds less sodium (6 mg/100 g) but higher amounts of potassium (111 mg/100 g), an important intra-cellular electrolyte. Potassium is a heart friendly electrolyte and helps bring the reduction in blood pressure and heart rates by countering pressing effects of sodium.
Further, Ash gourd carries modest levels of other B-complex groups of vitamins like pantothenic acid, riboflavin, and minerals like calcium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, and zinc.
In traditional ayurvedic medicine, ash gourd (white pumpkin) has been thought to be alkaline in nature, and hence its consumption has a cooling and neutralizing effect on stomach acids and as such used effectively for treating digestive ailments like hyperacidity, dyspepsia, and ulcers. It is also used to treat diabetes.
See the table below for in depth analysis of nutrients:
Ash gourd (waxgourd) (Benincasa hispida), raw, Nutrition value per 100 g.
