Yes

Noodle squash is pumpkin. Noodle squash means pumpkin in some regional dialects, it's just called differently in different regions. It is also known as bonobo, fenugreek, and northern squash. Native to South America, later introduced to China. The stem of the pumpkin is several meters long, rooted at the nodes, stout, furrowed, covered with short stiff hairs, tendrils divided into 3 to 4 forks. Single leaves alternate, leaf blade cordate or broadly ovate, 5 lobed with 5 horns, slightly soft, 15-30 cm long, both sides densely covered with velvet, along the edge and the leaf surface often white spots, the edge of the irregular serration.

Noodle gourd contains starch, protein, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C and calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients. Its nutritional richness, for rural people often eat squash, and increasingly valued by urban people. Not only has a high food value. And has a non-negligible therapeutic role.

Pumpkin introduced into China has a number of paths, but to Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang for the earliest. Chinese people initially thought that the pumpkin from Japan, so the name of the "Japanese melon", because Japan in the east of China, so also known as the pumpkin for the "Dongguan", in addition there is a further misunderstanding for the production of the Korean Peninsula, the name of the "Goryeo Melon ", and the Japanese thought the pumpkin from China, so call it "Tang eggplant" (at that time, the Japanese will be generalized Chinese products known as Tang things). To the middle and late Qing Dynasty, China's southern pumpkin along the Grand Canal to the north, especially Shandong, became the northern pumpkin planting town, people began to realize that the melon should come from the south, "pumpkin" began to be popular.

Effects and functions of pumpkin

1, detoxification: pumpkin contains vitamins and pectin, pectin has a good adsorption, can be bonded and eliminated in the body of bacterial toxins and other harmful substances, such as heavy metals in the lead, mercury and radioactive elements, and play a detoxification role.

2, to protect the gastric mucosa, help digestion: pumpkin pectin can also protect the gastrointestinal mucosa, from rough food stimulation, to promote the healing of ulcer surfaces, suitable for patients with gastric disease. Pumpkin contains ingredients that can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal motility, help food digestion.

3, the elimination of carcinogens: pumpkin can eliminate the carcinogen nitrosamine mutation, cancer prevention, and can help the liver and kidney function recovery, enhance the regenerative capacity of liver and kidney cells.

4, insecticide: pumpkin raw food can drive roundworms, adults each time 1 catty, children half a catty, two hours before taking laxatives, served for 2 days.