Pumpkin is a kind of food that is often eaten in life. Pumpkin is very rich in nutritional value. Eating some pumpkins properly can regulate your health. Eating pumpkin can also make the body feel full, and the dietotherapy value is also very high. Everyone can make pumpkin soup, which tastes very sweet. Eating pumpkin for a long time can also reduce blood sugar, promote digestion, eliminate inflammation, relieve pain and treat burns.

How to make pumpkin soup

Peel the pumpkin, remove the pulp and slice it. The remaining pumpkin seeds can be washed, browned in the oven or sauteed in a dry pot with low heat, which is a delicious pumpkin seed. Put the pumpkin slices in the pot, steam until soft (about 1-15 minutes), then press the steamed pumpkin into large pieces with a spoon and put it into a blender to stir it into mud. Pour the pumpkin puree from the previous step into the pot, heat it on low heat, and add milk and whipped cream. At the same time, keep stirring with a spoon to avoid touching the pot, heat it until it is very hot, and then season it with sugar according to your personal taste. The last step of decoration: after the pumpkin soup is served, it can be decorated with whipped cream and cooked sesame seeds to increase the sense of color.

nutritional value

eating pumpkin for a long time is helpful to tonify the middle energizer, replenish qi, reduce blood fat and blood sugar, clear away heat and toxic materials, protect gastric mucosa and help digestion. Its efficacy is mainly applicable to spleen weakness, malnutrition, lung abscess, fire and water burns. According to the notes in Compendium of Materia Medica, pumpkin has the functions of stomach and liver, spleen and stomach meridian. Has the functions of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, resolving phlegm and expelling pus, detoxicating and killing insects, generating liver qi and benefiting liver blood.

Benefits of eating pumpkin soup

Pumpkin is rich in carotene and vitamin C, which can strengthen the spleen, prevent gastritis, prevent night blindness, protect the liver, make the skin tender, and neutralize carcinogens. Yellow fruits and vegetables are also rich in two vitamins A and D; Vitamin A can protect gastrointestinal mucosa and prevent gastritis, gastric ulcer and other diseases. Vitamin D can promote the absorption of two mineral elements, calcium and phosphorus, thus strengthening bones and tendons, and has certain preventive effect on common diseases such as rickets in children, myopia in adolescents and osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people.

Pumpkin is rich in cobalt, which ranks first among all kinds of vegetables. Cobalt can activate human metabolism, promote hematopoietic function, and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B12 in human body. It is an essential trace element for human islet cells, and has a special effect on preventing and treating diabetes and lowering blood sugar.