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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Most people are fun eating muffins especially children. They seldom to vegetables because they
dont like the taste. They dont realize the benefits that there vegetables can give to them like the bitter
gourd. Instead they prefer to eat preserved and ready to eat foods.
The bitter gourd fruit is not hard to find and almost all the parts are useful most especially the
fruits and leaves which are rich in nutrients such as phytonutrients, minerals, vitamins, dietary fiber and
anti-oxidant.
The result of this study benefits people especially children, who are not eating bitter gourd, by
giving them a chance to enjoy and discover the richness of bitter gourd by making a muffins. And help
children to disregard eating junk foods which has not good effect in to their health thus prefer to eat
nutritious and healthy food like the bitter gourd.
Chapter II
REVIEW OF RELTAED LITERATURE AND RELATED STUDIES
2.1 Review of Related Literature
The term muffin typically refers to an individual sized quick bread product which
can be sweet or savory. The typical American muffin is similar to a cupcake in size and
cooking methods. These can come in both savory varieties, such as corn or cheese muffins,
and sweet varieties such as blueberry or banana. Muffin also refers to a flatter disk-shaped
bread of English origin, commonly referred to as an English muffin outside the United
Kingdom. These muffins are also popular in Commonwealth countries and the United States.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffin)
Momordica charantia, known as bitter melon, bitter gourd, bitter squash or balsam-pear
in English, has many other local names. Goya from the indigenous language of Okinawa and
karela from Sanskrit are also used by English-language speakers.
It is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia,
Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit, which is extremely bitter. Its many varieties
differ substantially in the shape and bitterness of the fruit.
Bitter melon originated on the Indian subcontinent, and was introduced into China in the
14th century.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momordica_charantia)
The bitter melon (also known as bitter gourd) looks like a cucumber but with ugly gourdlike bumps all over it.
As the name implies, this vegetable is a melon that is bitter. There are two varieties of
this vegetable: One grows to about 20 cm long, is oblong and pale green in color. The other
is the smaller variety, less than 10 cm long, oval and has a darker green color.
Both varieties have seeds that are white when unripe and that turn red when they are ripe.
The vegetable-fruit turn reddish-orange when ripe and becomes even bitterer.
Bitter gourd thrives in hot and humid climates, so are commonly found in Asian countries
and South America.
Westerners may not be so used to bitter melons, so may find them more difficult to
consume. But if you can generally take bitter taste, you may be able to take this too. Try it, at
least for all its healthful virtues!
(http://juicing-for-health.com/basic-nutrition/healing-vegetables/health-benefits-of-bittergourd.html)
Bitter gourd is a popular vegetable in some Asian countries, where the health benefits of
the plant are well-knownparticularly, its ability to lower blood glucose in diabetics. Bitter
gourd has been used to treat diabetes in traditional medicine and is now commercially
available as tea (from fruits or leaves), juice, extracts, and pills. Although these products
promise health benefits, most of the manufacturers do not offer scientifically proven data on
the effectiveness of bitter gourd or their products. However, in recent years researchers
worldwide have started to focus on the antidiabetic effects of bitter gourd. The goal is to
provide safe and clear preparation and dosage recommendations so that consumers will
realize the greatest benefit from consuming fresh bitter gourd or bitter gourd products.
(http://www.bitter-gourd.org/health-benefits/)
lowering effect of ampalaya is the momordicin, which is similarly responsible for the plants
bitterness.
(http://www.allaboutdiabetes.net/ampalaya-as-antidiabetic-agent/)
Chapter III
METHODOLOGY
3.1 Flowchart
Collection and Preparation of bitter gourd fruit.