Pumpkin has long been known as a valuable vegetable crop. It is easy to prepare, while it contains a huge amount of useful substances. In nutrition, both flesh and seeds are used. It can be used in conventional and curative nutrition, in particular, it is worth to find out what is the use of boiled pumpkin for the human body.
It is worth noting that the boiled pumpkin retains most of the nutrients that are characteristic of the raw culture.
Chemical composition
In boiled found a whole complex of vitamins:
- Vitamin A , which activates the processes of vision recovery and positively affects the condition of the skin, teeth, nails.
- Vitamins of group B , normalizing the level of sugar in the blood , increasing the resistance of the body to stress, improving the work of the digestive tract.
- Vitamin D. The use of cooked pumpkin for the body is also determined by the presence in it of vitamin D, which affects the formation and strengthening of bone tissue, suppresses the growth of cancer cells, increases activity, adds energy.
- Vitamin K prevents thinning of bone tissue.
- Vitamin PP protects the nervous system from malfunctioning.
- Vitamin T. In addition to well-known vitamins, an extremely rare vitamin T is found in cooked culture, which promotes the digestion of heavy food.
To understand what else benefits from boiled pumpkin, it suffices to say that it contains important for the activity of the organism macro- and microelements:
- iron, preventing anemia;
- magnesium, positively affecting the work of the heart and nervous system;
- cobalt, which actively participates in hematopoiesis;
- zinc, which is responsible for skin condition;
- copper, which helps the body absorb iron .
Useful properties of boiled pumpkin
Pumpkin helps to strengthen immunity and actively struggles with excess weight, promotes the excretion of toxins from the body, normalizes the activity of the digestive tract, removes puffiness, strengthens the vessels, perfectly smoothes and moisturizes the skin.
At the same time, it is worth paying attention to the fact that a boiled pumpkin with unconditional benefit can also bring harm to the body.
Contraindications for use
It is not recommended in the following cases:
- at a diabetes, because of a considerable quantity of sugars containing in pulp;
- with acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases;
- with individual intolerance.
Cooked pumpkin, rather, will not benefit, and harm, if it is used during diarrhea: it will exacerbate the morbid condition.