Pumpkin is one of the largest fruits and one of the most useful. In pursuit of various unusual delicacies, we forget about the huge benefits of simple products, including pumpkin.
Pumpkin composition
If we realized how many pumpkin vitamins, minerals and other useful ingredients, we would certainly include it in your diet.
In the composition of a pumpkin you can find:
- sugar: from 5 to 20%;
- vitamins;
- mineral elements: magnesium, calcium , iron salts, but especially in this vegetable potassium salts;
- pigment carotene, and in the pumpkin it is several times more than in the beef liver or carrots;
- other substances: organic acids, fiber, starch, pectin substances.
What vitamins are contained in a pumpkin?
Pumpkin contains a whole vitamin set:
- group B (B1, B2, B5, B6);
- vitamin E;
- vitamin PP;
- vitamin C (ascorbic acid);
- vitamin T (carnitine). This vitamin is rarely found in foods. It is important for metabolic processes, the formation of platelets and blood clotting.
The Benefits of Pumpkins
Thanks to vitamins and other useful ingredients contained in the pumpkin, we can improve our health. Pumpkin can bring such benefits to our body:
- Cleans the body of toxins and toxins.
- A rich composition of vitamins in the pumpkin will support the body during diets and after the diseases.
- Pumpkin will improve the condition in vascular diseases, including hypertension.
- Pumpkin dishes will help to lose weight, as they increase metabolism in the body.
- Pumpkin juice will help with constipation, hemorrhoids, cystitis, nervous system disorders.
- Pumpkin gently removes salt and excess fluid from the body.
- Pumpkin juice or pumpkin broth with the addition of honey will improve sleep.
- Thanks to the presence of carotene, pumpkin is needed for people who have vision problems.