Bottle gourd is no less than a boon for health. Bottle gourd is a storehouse of nutrients. However, two types of bottle ...

The bottle gourd, beloved since pre-Columbian times not only for its voluptuous shape but for its endless uses, very likely floated on ocean currents from its native Africa to South America inside ...

“They get big -- 3 feet -- and keep a long time,” she said of the gourds, adding that you can hollow out the fruit and use it like a bottle. The gourds also have been used to make ladles ...

Bottle gourd is an excellent natural iron tonic because it has vitamin C too, a nutrient needed to properly absorb iron into the body. Bottle gourd has sodium, potassium and other essential minerals.

Bottle gourds (Lagenaria siceraria) are generally smooth-skinned and have a long neck. Swan, dipper, and penguin gourds are also bottle-type gourds.

The bottle gourd or doodhi has a long list of health benefits. Dr. Manoj Kutteri, Wellness Director at Atmantan Wellness Director lists some of them. Cooked bottle gourd aids for better digestion.

Against the sunset, the thatch-roofed homes along the levee road leading to Bat Trang -- the famed pottery village just outside Hanoi, Vietnam -- look like a shimmering garden of flowering gourds ...