Pumpkin seeds cannot be eaten with mutton or coffee. Eating pumpkin seeds and mutton together may cause bloating and chest tightness. Eating pumpkin seeds and coffee together may affect iron absorption.

Pumpkin seeds, the name of Chinese medicine. The seeds of pumpkin, a plant of the Cucurbitaceae family. Pick ripe fruits in autumn, take out the seeds, wash and dry them. The dry and mature seeds are flat oval, slightly pointed at one end, yellowish white in appearance, slightly ribbed at the edges, about 1.2 to 2 cm long, 0.7 to 1.2 cm wide, with hairy surface and many edges. The seed coat is thick, and the hilum is located at the pointed end; after removing the seed coat, you can see the green and thin endosperm with 2 yellow and plump cotyledons inside. The cotyledons contain fatty oil and the radicle is small. The smell is fragrant and the taste is slightly sweet. Dry ones with plump kernels and yellow-white shells are preferred

Taboos in eating pumpkins

1. Pumpkins and vinegar

Acetic acid will destroy the nutrients in pumpkins , reduce nutritional value.

2. Pumpkin and spinach

Pumpkin is rich in vitamin C decomposing enzymes, which will destroy the vitamin C in spinach and reduce its nutritional value. Both of these nutrients are very rich, but eating them together will lead to mutually exclusive problems and cause the nutrients to be decomposed.

Pumpkins, vinegar, sweet potatoes and spinach cannot be eaten together

3. Pumpkins and sweet potatoes

are both foods that tend to stagnate gas and will cause gas stagnation if eaten without cooking. Causes bloating. Eating pumpkin and sweet potatoes together can easily cause flatulence, abdominal pain, and sometimes vomiting acidic water unconsciously.

4. Pumpkin and mutton

Both of these foods are hot. Eating them together may cause bloating, constipation and other diseases. People with infectious diseases must not eat pumpkin and mutton together, as it will worsen the condition. People with fever symptoms should also not eat it.