Pumpkin is rich in starch protein, carotene, vitamin b, vitamin C and calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients. Pumpkin its nutrient-rich, for rural people often eat squash, and increasingly by the city people's attention.

Pumpkin not only has a high food value. And there is no ignoring the therapeutic effect. According to "Diannan Materia Medica": pumpkin temperature, taste sweet and non-toxic, into the spleen, stomach two meridians, can moisturize the lungs and qi, phlegm thick, expel worms and detoxification, coughing and wheezing, treatment of carbuncle constipation, and diuretic, cosmetic and other effects. Over the years, domestic and foreign medical experts, experts, research tests show that eating pumpkin, and cure prostate hypertrophy (pumpkin seeds can cure prostate hypertrophy), to prevent prostate cancer, prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis and gastric mucosal ulcers, the effect of stones.

Not able to eat with pumpkin food:

Vinegar: vinegar and pumpkin are incompatible: acetic acid damage to the nutrients in the pumpkin when eaten together.

Shrimp: pumpkin and shrimp are incompatible: the same food will cause dysentery, you can use black beans, licorice detoxification.

Carp: carp and pumpkin are incompatible: the same food will be poisoned.

Crab: crab and pumpkin are incompatible: eating together will cause poisoning.

Lamb: pumpkin and lamb are incompatible: "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "pumpkin can not be eaten with mutton, people gas congestion." As the pumpkin tonic gas, mutton hot tonic deficiency, two complementary together, people's intestines and stomach gas congestion.

Rapeseed: pumpkin and rapeseed are incompatible: pumpkin and vitamin C-rich food mix with eating, it will be vitamin C damage.

Vitamin C food: pumpkin and vitamin C-rich foods are similar: because pumpkin contains vitamin C differentiation enzyme, so it is not suitable for vitamin C-rich vegetables, fruits and eat together. Vitamin C heat-resistant, pumpkin cooked after this enzyme is damaged. So pumpkin should be boiled, should not be fried, not to mention tomatoes, chili peppers and the same wonderful.

Note: Vitamin C-rich vegetables are spinach, greens, tomatoes, round peppers, cabbage, cauliflower and so on.