Raw materials:

Pumpkin 1, milk 300ml, salt 1 teaspoon, white pepper 1/2.

Teaspoon, onion 1/2, oil 1 spoon, Lycium barbarum.

Exercise:

1. Peel the pumpkin, dig out the inner pulp and cut into pieces. Onion peeling

Skin, cut into pieces;

2. Heat the oil in a wok, stir-fry the onion until fragrant, and then put it in.

Add pumpkin and stir-fry for 3 minutes. When the pumpkin surface becomes slightly mature, pour it in and cool it.

Boil water on high fire, and then boil it on low fire 10 minute;

3. After the pumpkin is completely cooked and softened, mix the milk, medlar,

Add salt and white pepper, then simmer for 5 minutes;

4. Let it stand for 5 minutes after cooking, let the pumpkin soup cool a little, and then pour it in.

Beat in a blender to make a thick soup.

Remarks:

1, stir the pumpkin from time to time in the process of boiling it on low heat to avoid it.

Pumpkins stick to the bottom of the pot.

2. If there is no blender, you can try to go south during cooking.

The melon slices are crushed and scattered. As long as there are enough solid and liquid parts in the soup

Blend in.

Pumpkin tips:

Nutritional value of pumpkin

Pumpkin is rich and comprehensive in nutrition, and its fruit contains sugars (including starch, glucose, pectin, fructose, pentosan, mannitol, other dietary fibers, etc.). ), vitamins, protein, various amino acids and fats. Among the three thermogenic nutrients, pumpkin is a good low-fat food, with carbohydrate as the main component and low fat content. Pumpkin is rich in inorganic salts and trace elements, which plays an extremely important role in maintaining human health. Pumpkin is also rich in potassium, calcium and magnesium, but low in sodium, and rich in trace elements selenium, iron and zinc. Pumpkin, as a kind of food with high calcium, high zinc, high iron and low sodium, is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and hypertensive patients, which is beneficial to prevent osteoporosis and hypertension. The amino acid analysis of pumpkin powder by Huo et al. showed that pumpkin contains 17 amino acids needed by human body, among which lysine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, threonine and other essential amino acids are high. Its carotene content is 8 ~ 20 times that of watermelon, which is a high-quality source of vitamin A. In addition, pumpkin also contains functional components such as fenugreek, pumpkin seed alkali, soluble fiber and mannitol. The heat produced by pumpkin is equivalent to that of wheat and corn, the content of protein is equivalent to that of kidney bean and watercress, the content of vitamin A is equivalent to that of tomato, and the content of vitamin C is higher than that of cucumber.

Health care function of pumpkin

In ancient China, there were records about the dietotherapy and health care function of pumpkin. In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen put pumpkin and Ganoderma together, saying that it has the functions of invigorating the middle energizer, liver qi, heart qi, lung qi and essence qi. People who have been suffering from chronic diseases such as qi deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness, shortness of breath, fatigue, anorexia, abdominal distension and edema, and dysuria should use it. Studies in recent years also show that pumpkin has a variety of dietotherapy and health care functions, especially as a special nutritional health food for preventing and treating diabetes.

Hypoglycemic function of 1

Pumpkin is one of the traditional hypoglycemic foods in China. In 1970s, Japan reported the application of pumpkin powder in treating diabetes. Over the years, many researchers have devoted themselves to the study of pumpkin in preventing and treating diabetes. It is suggested that pectin, cyclopropyl amino acid and trace elements zinc and chromium in pumpkin may play an important role in preventing and treating diabetes. The chromium content of pumpkin ranks first among all kinds of vegetables. Chromium is one of the essential trace elements for human body, and trivalent chromium is the active center of glucose tolerance factor (GrP), which can stimulate glucose uptake and help maintain glucose tolerance. Chromium deficiency in human body is one of the causes of hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease. Chromium can not only inhibit the generation of malignant tumors in the body, but also promote the release of insulin in the body, so that the insulin secretion of diabetic patients is normal, which is very effective in lowering blood sugar. Cyclopropyl amino acid can promote the secretion of insulin, enhance the sensitivity of insulin receptor, activate glucoamylase, accelerate the transformation of glucose and reduce blood sugar concentration. In addition, pumpkin is rich in pectin, which can reduce postprandial blood sugar and blood insulin levels; At the same time, pectin has satiety function, which can improve the hunger of patients, thus it can control and assist in the treatment of diabetes and its complications, and it is a good diet for diabetic patients. In addition, Zhang Yongjun and others isolated pumpkin polysaccharide from pumpkin, and preliminarily determined the hypoglycemic mechanism of pumpkin polysaccharide through mouse animal experiments. Clinical trials have proved that diabetic patients eat100g pumpkin powder every day. After 10 days of treatment, all patients have improved to varying degrees, and some even recovered. At present, pumpkin powder has been regarded as the "nemesis" of diabetes by experts.

2 Hypolipidemic function

Pumpkin polysaccharide was isolated and extracted from pumpkin. Animal experiments proved that pumpkin polysaccharide could significantly reduce triglyceride, total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein in serum of diabetic mice. Serum TG, Tch and LDL are the promoting factors of atherosclerosis, especially the increase of LDL is the risk factor of myocardial infarction. The chemical composition of pumpkin polysaccharide contains a lot of uronic acid and more negatively charged acidic genes. Therefore, it is speculated that pumpkin polysaccharide may have similar effects to phospholipids, which can clear cholesterol and prevent arteriosclerosis. In addition, negatively charged pumpkin polysaccharide at physiological pH can bind with LPL and be released into blood from arterial wall, which can promote the degradation of chylothorax and very low density lipoprotein, and prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension.

3 the effect of preventing and treating cancer

Pumpkin contains some physiologically active substances such as alkaloids, trigonelline and cucurbitacine, which can eliminate and catalyze the decomposition of carcinogenic nitrosamines and effectively prevent and treat cancer.

Detoxification, liver protection and renal function

Pumpkin is rich in pectin, which has excellent adsorption performance, can combine and effectively eliminate the bacterial toxicity and the influence of heavy metals and radioactive elements in the body, has the function of resisting environmental poisons, and has a remarkable curative effect on patients with digestive tract ulcers. Pumpkin contains potassium salt, water and a small amount of sodium salt, which can enhance the secretion ability and play a good role in accelerating the dissolution of kidney calculi and bladder stones when the prostate and liver are inflamed. In addition, pumpkin powder has a certain effect on treating hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, kidney diseases and other diseases, because pumpkin, a yellow-green vegetable, contains ingredients that can destroy harmful substances such as pesticides and nitrite in food, which can help patients with impaired liver and kidney function to enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells. In recent years, according to the research of Japanese Cancer Prevention Center, eating yellow-green vegetables such as pumpkin and cauliflower every day can reduce the incidence and mortality of lung cancer.

5 Anti-oxidation and eyesight protection functions

Pumpkin is rich in vitamin E and beta-carotene. Vitamin E has a strong antioxidant effect, which can effectively protect the body from some oxygen free radicals and peroxides, and may have a certain anti-aging effect. β -carotene can be converted into vitamin A(VA), which has important physiological functions in human body. VA plays an important role in protecting eyesight, preventing eye diseases, maintaining the health of human epithelial tissues and promoting the growth and development of children. At the same time, VA plays an important physiological role in maintaining normal vision, improving vision, promoting bone development and preventing cancer in vivo. As the source of VA in food, pumpkin food is more economical than animal food (such as liver and egg yolk). It is reported that among people who often eat pumpkins, people over 80 can still maintain good eyesight and read newspapers without glasses.

6 The function of adjuvant treatment of prostatitis

Pumpkin seed and pumpkin seed extract have pharmacological effects of relieving prostatitis and treating benign prostatic hypertrophy, but the curative effect is poor when used alone. If they are combined with other natural plants, the curative effect is better. Pumpkin seed oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which can prevent prostate cancer and enhance male sexual function.

7 Other functions

Pumpkin is rich in citrulline, which can drive away parasites such as roundworm, tapeworm, ginger worm and schistosomiasis, and has certain curative effect on schistosomiasis and ascites of advanced schistosomiasis. Pumpkin seeds are also rich in soybean oleic acid, which can nourish brain cells, remove deposits on the inner wall of blood vessels, improve brain function and improve brain blood circulation. Inorganic salts and trace elements in pumpkin play an extremely important role in maintaining health, and have the functions of preventing obesity, treating chronic osteomyelitis, treating asthma, protecting fetus and giving birth to milk.