★Heirloom Edible Tambuli Bottle Gourd Seeds 

This beautiful and tasty gourd is bright green in color, cylindrical in shape and with a distinguished neck and flat blossom end. Plants are very vigorous and grow very fast during the warm summer season. Fruit is most tender when picked 14-24" long. The light green skinned fruits have white flesh and are sweet and entirely edible when harvested at this immature stage. It is strongly disease resistant. A great regional variety from Philippine. Plant in spring to mid-summer. About 75 days after plantation, young fruits are ready to be harvested!

Health benefits of Bottle gourd

• Bottle gourd is one of the least calorie vegetable, providing just 14 calories per 100g. It is one of the vegetables recommended by the dieticians in weight-control programs.
  
  
• Fresh gourds contain small quantities of folates, contain about 6 µg/100g (Provide just 1.5% of RDA). Folate helps reduce the incidence of neural tube defects in the newborns when taken by anticipant mothers during early months of their pregnancy.
  
  
• Fresh calabash-gourd is a moderate source of vitamin-C (100 g of raw frit provides 10 mg or about 17% of RDA). Vitamin-C, one of the powerful natural antioxidants that helps human body scavenge deleterious free radicals one of the reasons for cancer development.
  
  
• Calabash facilitates easy digestion and movement of food through the bowel until it is excreted from the body. Thus, it helps in relieving indigestion and constipation problems.
  
  
• In addition, the vegetable is also a moderate source of thiamin, niacin (vitamin B-3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B-5), pyridoxine (vitamin B-6) and minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc, potassium, manganese and magnesium.

 

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