One of the most common vegetables seen across Indian households, Bottle Gourd or Lauki, comes in different shapes and sizes. It is considered to be one of the most healthy vegetables around. The flesh of bottle gourds is also edible and is full of water with a slightly bitter but crunchy taste.

The benefits of bottle gourd need no retelling. Bottle Gourd is known by different names like a white-flowered gourd, calabash, New Guinea bean, Tasmania bean, or long melon, as it remains to be one of the most affordable and commonly found vegetables around the country.

Benefits: 

●    Bottle gourds assist in weight loss.
●    Keeps the body hydrated.
●    They treat urinary tract infections.
●    Heal sleeping disorders.
●    Reduce liver inflammation.
●    Ease out digestion.
●    Protects hair against premature greying.
●    It helps reduce the inflammations in the kidneys and liver. 
●    Relieves the problem related to constipation. 
●    The presence of water and fiber in the bottle gourd makes the digestive system free and active.