Homemade Healthy Bitter Gourd Juice To Keep Diabetes In Control

Lifestyle and other factors have led to surging numbers of people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, the most common type of diabetes.

In the United States alone, around 30.3 million Americans, or 9.4 percent of the population, had diabetes in 2015. A very small percentage of them were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Each year, an estimated 1.5 million people are diagnosed with diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association .

Ingredients

2 large bitter gourds
1 medium cucumber
½ of a lemon
1 green apple
½ teaspoon of salt (optional)

Method

* Wash the bitter gourds and peel off the skin.

* Slit the bitter gourds vertically, and remove the rind and seeds using a spoon or knife. Roughly chop the bitter gourds into smaller pieces.

* Soak the bitter gourd pieces in a bowl of water for 10 minutes. Optionally, you can add ½ teaspoon of salt to the water.

* Peel a cucumber and cut it into pieces..

* Cut the green apple into small pieces.

* Put the bitter gourd, green apple and cucumber in a juicer to extract the juice.

* Add the juice of ½ of a lemon.

* Your diabetic-friendly bitter gourd and cucumber juice is ready. Drink it once daily on an empty stomach to help control your blood sugar level.