There is starch in watermelon seeds.

Watermelon seeds contain fat oil, protein, vitamin B2, starch, pentosan, propionic acid, urea, sucrose and so on. Watermelon seeds are often used as people's leisure food.

Watermelon seeds contain unsaturated fatty acids, have the effect of lowering blood pressure, and help prevent atherosclerosis, is suitable for people with high blood pressure food. It also contains a saponin-like components, with antihypertensive effect. Watermelon seeds contain pentosan, starch, crude fiber, fat oil, protein, vitamin B2, α-amino-β-(pyrazolyl-N)propionic acid. Also contains urease, α-galactosidase, β-galactosidase and sucrase.

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Melon seeds, as a leisure food, have always been popular. There are many kinds of melon seeds, common sunflower seeds, as well as watermelon seeds, pumpkin seeds and winter melon seeds, etc., which contain nutritional as well as therapeutic effects of their respective strengths, leisure time to eat melon seeds, on their own health is good.

Eating watermelon seeds can prevent senile dementia, watermelon seeds flat, sweet, but also has a clear lungs and intestines, and in the thirst, phlegm cleaning and other effects. Watermelon seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, its main component is linoleic acid, which can reduce blood cholesterol. Watermelon seeds also contain starch and other substances that maintain the body's energy

The fat content of various melon seeds does not differ greatly. In the case of pumpkin seeds, every 100 grams of pumpkin seeds with skin eaten at the same time eaten fat is about 23 grams. If you eat 100 grams of watermelon seeds with skin, then the fat ingested is about 20 grams, slightly less than sunflower seeds with pumpkin seeds.

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