Pumpkins are grown all over China. The tender fruit is sweet and palatable, and it is one of the melons and vegetables in summer and autumn. Old melons can be used as feed and miscellaneous grains, so many places are also called rice melons. In the west, pumpkins are often used to make pumpkin pies, that is, pumpkin biscuits. Pumpkin seeds can be eaten as snacks. Pumpkin contains a lot of carbohydrates, cellulose, sugar and so on. When planting, insects will grow; It may also be that when it was stored at home, it was not eaten in time and gave birth to bugs.
The beneficial components in pumpkin are polysaccharides, amino acids, active protein carotenoids and various trace elements.
1. Pumpkin is an excellent source of B- carotene, which can help people maintain their keen thinking ability, and zinc, a mineral rich in pumpkin seeds, is also an important substance to promote brain function.
2. Polysaccharide: Pumpkin polysaccharide is a non-specific immune enhancer, which can improve the immune function of the body, promote the production of cytokines, and exert various regulatory functions on the immune system by activating complement.
3. Carotenoids: Carotenoids rich in pumpkin can be converted into vitamin A with important physiological functions in the body, which has important physiological functions for the growth and differentiation of epithelial tissues, maintaining normal vision and promoting the development of bones.
4. Mineral elements: Pumpkin is high in calcium, potassium and sodium, which is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and patients with hypertension, and is conducive to preventing osteoporosis and hypertension. In addition, it also contains phosphorus, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, boron and other elements.
5. Amino acids and active proteins: Pumpkin contains many kinds of amino acids needed by human body, among which lysine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine and threonine are higher. In addition, the genotype of ascorbic acid oxidase in pumpkin is the same as that in tobacco, but its activity is obviously higher than that in tobacco, indicating that the content of immunocompetent protein in pumpkin is higher.