Pumpkin is a kind of melon vegetable that people often eat, and it is a kind of melon with very high application value. Pumpkins are grown in many places in China and mature in summer or autumn. People can use pumpkin as food for nourishing the stomach, and pumpkin seeds can also be used as medicine, which has the functions of expelling worms and killing blood worm larvae. So pumpkins can be eaten often.

Eating some pumpkins regularly can detoxify, protect the stomach and lower blood sugar.

Pumpkins are rich in nutrition. When it is ripe, its fruit contains starch, calcium, iron and carotene. Young pumpkins are rich in vitamin C and glucose. There are many varieties of pumpkins in China, but their effects are similar. Pumpkins are generally light yellow or orange, oblate, spherical to rectangular, with large fruits and smooth skins, usually with shallow grooves or ribs. Pumpkin is warm, sweet and non-toxic. It is not only a vegetable, but also a substitute for food. Eating pumpkin often can moisten the lungs and replenish qi, and also can relieve inflammation and pain, eliminate phlegm and expel pus, expel worms and detoxify, lower blood sugar and quench thirst, and have the effect of diuresis and beauty.

Dietotherapy value of pumpkin

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

2. Protect the gastric mucosa and help digestion: Pumpkin is an excellent food for nourishing the stomach. The pectin contained in pumpkin can also protect the mucosa of gastric mucosa from the stimulation of rough food and promote the healing of ulcer, which is suitable for patients with gastric diseases. Pumpkin contains ingredients that can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion.

3. Prevent diabetes and lower blood sugar: Pumpkins help people prevent diabetes. Pumpkin is rich in cobalt, which can activate human metabolism, promote hematopoietic function and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B in human body. It is an essential trace element for human islet cells and has special effects on preventing and treating diabetes and lowering blood sugar.

4. Eliminate carcinogens: Pumpkin has anti-cancer effect. Pumpkin can eliminate the mutation of nitrosamine, which is a carcinogen, has anti-cancer effect, and can help the recovery of liver and kidney function and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.

5. Promote growth and development: Pumpkins can promote human growth. Pumpkin is rich in zinc and participates in the synthesis of nucleic acid and protein in human body. It is an inherent component of adrenocortical hormone and an important substance for human growth and development.

How to eat pumpkin at home

There are many ways to eat pumpkins, which can be steamed, boiled or made into soup. External tamping agent. Pumpkin cooked food supplement and welfare water; Used for expelling octopus and detoxifying. Diabetic patients can make pumpkin into pumpkin powder for long-term consumption. We can take a proper amount of pumpkin, wash and slice it, marinate it with salt for 6 hours, and eat it with vinegar, which can reduce facial pigmentation and prevent acne.

Steamed egg soup with pumpkin

Ingredients: 2 pumpkins and 2 eggs. Accessories: 2 shrimps, 2 shallots, salt 1 teaspoon, steamed fish black soybean oil 1 teaspoon, sesame oil 1 teaspoon.

Steps:

1. First, cut the pumpkin into the lid, dig out the pulp and make a pumpkin cup.

2. Prepare a bowl, beat in the eggs, add half a spoonful of salt, break up, pour in warm water according to the ratio of 1: 1, and mix well.

3. Cut the onion leaves into chopped green onion.

4. Put the pumpkin cup in a steamer and steam for 10 minute, then pour the egg liquid into the pumpkin cup, put the pumpkin cover in and steam for 7 minutes. Add shrimps, steam for 7 minutes, take out and pour with sesame oil, steamed fish and soy sauce.

Pumpkin is a very good melon vegetable, because of its high nutritional value, it can help people detoxify and expel worms, prevent and treat diabetes, lower blood sugar, fight cancer, beautify and promote body growth, especially pumpkin has a very good stomach nourishing effect. High-quality pumpkin pulp is golden yellow, heavy, undamaged and moth-eaten, complete in shape and sweet in taste.