Overview:

Sometimes called “lady’s finger,” okra is a flowering plant with edible seed pods. It grows best in warm climates and is often cultivated in Africa and South Asia.
Although technically a fruit, okra often gets used like a vegetable in cooking. You might be familiar with okra as an ingredient in gumbo, for example. Although not necessarily a household name in healthy foods, okra still has plenty of nutritional value.

Benefits:

• Fight Cancer
• Antioxidants
• Polyphenols
• Control Blood Sugar
• Prenatal Support
• lung conditions
• Osteoporosis
• bad cholesterol
• skin conditions
• Stomach
• obesity
• anaemia
• Constipation
• brain
• nutrition during pregnancy

Side Effects:

People with diabetes should be careful when considering adding more okra into their diets. Although okra may be able to help people better control their blood sugar, it can also interfere with metformin, a medication often used to treat Type 2 diabetes.