1, can pumpkin flowers be eaten? Pumpkin is also called pumpkin. Pumpkin flowers, also known as pumpkin flower and rice melon flower, is the flower of Cucurbitaceae pumpkin, which is apricot yellow with long flowering period and monoecious. Pumpkin flowers is not only edible, but also has high medicinal value. Pumpkin flowers is cool, and has the effects of moistening lung, benefiting qi, clearing away damp-heat, reducing swelling and removing blood stasis. It is suitable for jaundice, dysentery, cough, constipation, carbuncle, furuncle, scrotal eczema, dysentery and malnutrition. "Classified Herbs" records: "(pumpkin flowers) cures cough, raises voice, detoxifies, and has a long-standing chronic disease." It is also recorded in the Collection of Common Folk Herbs: "pumpkin flowers has the functions of detumescence, eliminating damp-heat, detoxicating, expectoration and lactation." 2. How to eat pumpkin flower 2. 1, stir-fried pumpkin flower with green pepper Raw materials: green pepper100g, pumpkin flower18g, dried pepper12g, ginger slices 8g, cooking oil 35g, monosodium glutamate 2g and refined salt 3g. Practice: Wash green peppers, remove seeds and cut into thick shreds; Wash the pumpkin flower and cut it into two pieces with a knife; Heat the cooking oil in a wok, add ginger slices, dried prickly ash granules, refined salt and shredded green pepper for a few times, then add pumpkin flowers and stir-fry until it stops growing, add monosodium glutamate and push evenly, and serve. Features: Fried pumpkin flowers with green peppers are fragrant and slightly spicy, and can relieve greasy. 2.2, pumpkin flower seaweed soup raw materials: pumpkin flower, Longkou vermicelli, seaweed, shredded lean meat (a small amount), ribs soup, the right amount. Practice: Soak the vermicelli into soft pieces, boil the ribs soup, add the laver vermicelli first, and cook over medium heat; When the laver vermicelli is cooked until soft, add the pumpkin flowers and cook again; After the soup boils, add the seasoned shredded lean meat. 2.3, pumpkin egg cake raw materials: eggs, flour, raw flour, salt, pepper. Practice: remove the stamens, wash and drain the water. Eggs are mixed with flour, cornflour, salt and a little pepper to make a batter. Let the pumpkin flowers be evenly wrapped in batter, and quickly fry in an oil pan for a few seconds to remove the oil. If you don't like fried food, you can also cook it by frying or steaming. 3. Precautions for eating pumpkin flowers are suitable for people: it is an ideal natural health care product for children and the elderly. Not suitable for people: allergic people. Suitable for shopping: it is suitable for shopping on the same day. Suitable cooking: stir-fry or cook soup, or make soup or cook porridge. Cooking taboo: Cooking time should not be too long. Edible: pumpkin flowers should be picked in the morning or before noon after pollination. Taboo: Use with caution for allergic people. Storage: Suitable for refrigerator storage after cooking. Why is pumpkin also called pumpkin? There are many paths for pumpkin to be introduced into China, but Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang are the earliest. At the beginning, Chinese people mistakenly thought that pumpkin came from Japan, so it was called "Japanese melon", and because Japan is in the east of China, it was also called "East melon". In addition, there was a further misunderstanding that pumpkin came from the Korean Peninsula and was called "Korean melon", while Japanese people thought that pumpkin came from China, so they called it "Tang eggplant" (at that time, Japanese called China products as Tang objects). In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, southern pumpkins were transplanted northward along the Grand Canal, especially in Shandong, which became an important pumpkin planting town in the north. People began to realize that this pumpkin should come from the south, and the name "pumpkin" became popular. Efficacy and function of pumpkin 1, detoxification: it contains vitamins and pectin, which has good adsorption, can bind 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, help digestion: the pectin contained in the pumpkin can also protect the gastric mucosa from the stimulation of coarse food, promote ulcer healing, and is suitable for patients with gastric diseases. The components contained in pumpkin can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion. 3. Preventing diabetes and lowering blood sugar: Cucurbita moschata is rich in cobalt, which can activate human metabolism, promote hematopoietic function, and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B 12 in human body. It is an essential trace element for human islet cells, and has a special effect on preventing diabetes and lowering blood sugar.