1. Eat it directly as a snack, a must-have for watching dramas.
2. Crush it to make pumpkin porridge, which is particularly nourishing to the stomach.
3. Cut into strips and make into dishes.
How to eat it depends on personal taste and hobbies. It is harder to eat as a snack and is suitable for young people.
Extended information:
Benefits of eating pumpkin:
1. Pumpkin polysaccharide is a non-specific immune enhancer that can improve the body’s immune function and promote cell growth. It produces factors and exerts various regulatory functions on the immune system through activation of complement and other pathways.
2. The rich carotenoids in pumpkin can be converted into vitamin A with important physiological functions in the body, which plays important physiological functions in the growth and differentiation of epithelial tissue, maintaining normal vision, and promoting bone development. .
3. Pumpkin is high in calcium, potassium and low sodium, which is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and patients with hypertension, and is helpful in preventing osteoporosis and hypertension. In addition, it also contains phosphorus, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, boron and other elements.
4. Pumpkin contains a variety of amino acids needed by the human body, among which lysine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, and threonine are relatively high. In addition, the ascorbic acid oxidase genotype in pumpkin is the same as that in tobacco, but the activity is significantly higher than that in tobacco, indicating that pumpkin has a higher content of immunoactive proteins.
5. The lipids in pumpkin seeds have good therapeutic and preventive effects on urinary system diseases and prostatic hyperplasia.
6. Starch will be converted into glucose when it enters the human body, and the starch in pumpkin has certain other nutrients that can enhance the body’s resistance.