You can eat it every day, but you can't overdo it. Pumpkin is rich in β -carotene and widely exists in yellow-leaf vegetables and fruits, including pumpkin, carrot or lettuce, citrus and so on. When children eat too many pumpkins and eat too much beta-carotene, beta-carotene will be deposited in the stratum corneum of epidermis.

Therefore, for example, the nose, people, forehead, palms, soles of feet, around eyes, next to nails, around joints, or where the skin wrinkles are the most, the skin will turn into lemon yellow color, making the child look like he has jaundice. This symptom is called carotene xanthoderma. Therefore, don't exceed the amount of one staple food every day.

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Nutritional value of pumpkin

1, polysaccharide: pumpkin polysaccharide is a non-specific immune enhancer, which can improve the immune function of the body, promote the production of cytokines, and play a variety of regulatory functions on the immune system by activating complement.

2. Carotenoids: Carotenoids rich in pumpkin can be transformed into vitamin A with important physiological functions in vivo, which has important physiological functions for the growth and differentiation of epithelial tissues, maintaining normal vision and promoting the development of bones.

3. Mineral elements: Pumpkin is high in calcium, potassium and sodium, which is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and patients with hypertension, and is conducive to preventing osteoporosis and hypertension. In addition, it also contains phosphorus, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, boron and other elements.

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