New blended gourd beverages show potential for improved health benefits.
The researchers made healthy drinks by mixing ash gourd, bottle gourd, and jamun. These drinks are full of good stuff like polyphenols and flavonoids. Adding sugar made these good things easier for our bodies to use. The drinks stayed tasty and healthy even after being stored for 2 months. The ash gourd drink lost some of its good stuff during storage, but the bottle gourd drink kept more of it. This study shows that these drinks could be a good choice for a healthy diet.