You can cook porridge, and the cooked porridge is sweeter and softer, which increases the taste of porridge and is very suitable for cooking porridge. Pumpkin itself is very sweet, and then with some red dates, jujube cantaloupe is sweet, and millet is sticky and glutinous. It is more delicious when it is warm.

Pumpkin beibei contains vitamins and pectin, which has good adsorption, can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements in heavy metals, and play a detoxification role.

Pectin contained in pumpkin beibei can also protect gastrointestinal mucosa from the stimulation of coarse food and promote the healing of ulcer surface, which is suitable for patients with gastric diseases.

Pumpkin beibei is rich in cobalt, which ranks first in all kinds of vegetables. Cobalt can activate human metabolism, promote hematopoietic function, and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B 12 in human body. It is an essential trace element for human islet cells.

Vitamin C contained in pumpkin beibei can prevent nitrate from transforming into harmful substances in digestive tract, and mannitol contained in it can reduce the harm caused by toxins in feces to human body.

Tips for selecting pumpkin beibei:

First of all, Beibei pumpkin has the characteristics of small size, and each Beibei pumpkin is only the size of an adult fist, about half a catty to about a catty.

Beibei pumpkin has small striped pits and dark green with light green patterns, and dark green and shiny Beibei pumpkin is the best.

When selecting Beibei pumpkins, you should also pay attention to the pumpkin stalks. The mature Beibei pumpkins are those with cracks around the stalks, and those without cracks indicate that they are not fully mature.

Finally, you should press the Beibei pumpkin with your hand. It is the high-quality Beibei pumpkin that feels tight.