Pumpkins are Cucurbita Cucurbitaceae plants. "Pumpkin" can Cucurbita term refers specifically to the Chinese pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata), it can mean include Cucurbita (also known as the Indian pumpkin), other pumpkin squash (also known as zucchini), etc., belong to cultivated species. Per 100 grams, 0.6 grams protein, 0.1 grams of fat. 5.7 g carbohydrates, 1.1 g of crude fiber, ash 0.6 g, 10 milligrams of calcium, phosphorus, 32 mg, 0.5 mg of iron, carotene 0.57 mg, 0.04 mg riboflavin, niacin 0.7 mg, 5 mg of ascorbic acid. In addition, it also contains ammonia melon hormone, arginine, asparagine, trigonelline, glandular glanced Yin, glucose, mannitol, pentosan, pectin.
Pumpkins have planted all over China. Tender fruit sweet taste, is one of the summer season vegetables. Pumpkin is an excellent source of B- carotene, antioxidants which can help people maintain critical thinking, and pumpkin seeds are rich in minerals zinc, but also to promote the important matter of brain function operates. Pumpkin - vitamin and pectin, pectin has good adsorption, can rid the body of bonding and bacterial toxins and other harmful substances, heavy metals such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements, can play a role in detoxification; can also protect gastric mucosa glue, from rough food stimulation, promote ulcer healing, suitable for patients with stomach. Can promote bile secretion, strengthen the stomach and intestines to help digest food; pumpkin is rich in cobalt, cobalt can be active in the body's metabolism, promote hematopoietic function, and people involved in the synthesis of vitamin B12, and trace elements necessary for human islet cells, for prevention and treatment of diabetes, lower blood sugar have a special effect; pumpkin can eliminate the mutagenic effects of carcinogenic nitrosamines, have anti-cancer effects, and can help the liver, recovery of renal function, enhanced liver, renal cell regeneration