Fall — a season fertile, rich with useful vegetables and fruit. It is necessary to prepare for the forthcoming cold weather in the fall, to eat healthy food and to stock for the winter period. It is considered that the vegetable or fruit are brighter, the it is more in it than useful substances and vitamins.
The fall is associated at us with crispy red apples, fragrant blue grapes and, of course, ripe bright pumpkins. Pumpkins — vegetable, popular in our latitudes, which appears in supermarkets and in the markets as soon as becomes cold.
Let's learn in more detail, than pumpkin is good for men and for women as to choose it upon purchase how to store houses whether it is possible to eat its crude and how many useful and tasty dishes it is possible to prepare from it.
Caloric content and chemical composition
There is a lot of useful substances in pumpkin. It is vitamin-rich A and E — the complex which is responsible for youth of fabrics and, respectively, beauty of skin and a hair. In pumpkin there is a lot of ascorbic acid, vitamins of group B and SS.
From micro and macrocells in this vegetable the potassium necessary for good work of a cardiovascular system, the calcium which is responsible for a bone tissue and stability of nervous system, magnesium and iron are found.
Moisture in it 92%, and at the same time are more than carotene, than in carrot five times. Pumpkin contains sugar (therefore it such sweet), cellulose and protein.
Calories in pumpkin are not enough — only twenty two on hundred grams how many it cook therefore it is included surely in medical diets of the people suffering from obesity. Complex alkalis as a part of vegetable help people with GIT diseases.
Important! Pumpkin is very useful to pregnant women. It contains a lot of iron, and it prevents development of anemia in future mother and, respectively, a hypoxia at yet not been born kid.
Than pumpkin is useful to a human body
It is possible to call this vegetable medical — nutritionists build on it diets for people with various problems, beginning from diseases of kidneys and finishing an acne. Availability of pumpkin and a variety of dishes from it will be pleasant to all who do not love vegetables, but is forced to eat properly.
One-time purchase of pumpkin will not bring special benefit — it needs to be eaten several months in a row to achieve improving effect.
For men
In pumpkin the most useful to men are its sunflower seeds though it is possible to use it everything, from pulp to a tops of vegetable. Such vitamins what contain in pumpkin and its sunflower seeds are not found more in any other vegetables — at least, not in such quantity. At the daily use it restores men's sexual function and works as prevention of age diseases. The men are more senior, the risk of emergence is higher than prostate adenoma at them.
That this disease did not rise, it is necessary to eat fifty pumpkin sunflower seeds every day. If already problems with urination began, then more effective effect will be taken by germinated sunflower seeds (for this purpose they have to be not fried).
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Besides especially male diseases, pumpkin perfectly deals with the cardiovascular problems. Due to a large amount of potassium in structure it strengthens walls of vessels and cleans them, and the cardiac muscle begins to work more steadily.
Pumpkin — excellent heart attack medicine. It cleans intestines at locks — removes slags at the expense of cellulose and tones up a vermicular movement, reduces puffiness because has strong diuretic effect and normalizes work of unhealthy kidneys.
For women
The same as at men, at women after fifty age failures in an organism begin. Changes in lipidic exchange lead to emergence of excess weight and obstruction of vessels cholesteric plaques.
So useful properties of pumpkin are invaluable to women — this vegetable in any kind, especially its pulp, accelerates a metabolism and, respectively, helps fatty tissue to be split.
The pumpkin diet gives fast weight loss without harm for an organism and at the same time has no contraindications as the body continues to receive all vitamins and minerals necessary for it.
To fix especially women's issues, such as cystitis, pumpkin can do too. It is enough to include of it in the diet and to eat this vegetable daily within at least two weeks. Cervical cancer will manage to be prevented even at hereditary predisposition if to eat daily at least two hundred grams of pumpkin pulp. In general, women die of cancer diseases more often than men therefore such vegetable therapy is necessary to them very opportunely — pumpkin prevents appearance of malignant tumors of intestines, stomach and gullet.
Whether you know? In total there are more than fifty pumpkin grades. The smallest of them treat decorative. Such remains no more than a kilogram weigh. The American (who would doubt) Gerry Chekton managed to grow up the biggest pumpkin. His champion weighed whole half-tons.
For weight loss
First, pumpkin stimulates urination. It helps an organism to get rid of free water which remains in fabrics and provokes ugly and inconvenient hypostases. It is less than excess liquid — less excess weight. Secondly, it disperses metabolism at the expense of the content in it of unique vitamin T.
The useful substances which came to an organism are correctly split and used for power generation, but not laid in fat depots — fatty tissue vanishes. Thirdly, the caloric content of this vegetable as we already spoke, low — only 22 kilocalories on one hundred grams. It can be steamed, extinguished, baked, done sharp pastes, salads and stuffings and not to worry that overeating will affect a figure.
There is a set of monodiets which are useful to young men and women — the more pumpkins gets to an organism, the better for it. To people is more senior than fifty better not to be limited in food to one vegetable, and to add it to a diet as a tasty and useful alternative to high-calorie, harmful products.
She perfectly creates volume — you should not starve painfully. Besides at this vegetable very bright and cheerful color. It is much easier to transfer fasting days and diets when dishes on a table get bright and appetizing.
How to choose upon purchase
Almost the same as watermelon. Good pumpkin — ripe pumpkin. Of course, it can ripen at your place and go to food at the end of winter, but to eat pumpkin in day of purchase, it needs to be taken mature. This vegetable is different types — fodder, decorative, table. Fodder pumpkins watery and tasteless, they go to food to the cattle. Decorative do not suit for cookery, they small, with a rigid peel and a specific wood smell — generally, inedible.
Table pumpkins need to be chosen first of all by the size. Tasty vegetable is not big and is not small — five-seven kilograms. It is firm, but not wood, heavy for the sizes. The ripe peel will not manage to be pierced a nail, it slightly will cave in, but will not be damaged.
Color of a peel has to be a bright, saturated, ripe fruit gives a ringing sound at cotton or click on it. The tail falls off ripe vegetable itself, under it there is a dark bed. At unripe vegetables the tail is cut off because differently to separate them from a tops of vegetable it will not turn out.
Important! Pumpkin is shown those who suffers from insomnia or suffers causeless migraines. It not only strengthens nervous system, but also increases in blood serotonin level — hormone of happiness and pleasure.
How to clean and whether it is necessary before cooking
If in the recipe it is specified that pumpkin needs to be cooked entirely, then it is not necessary to clean it — the peel is very useful to intestines. And it is a pity — in a pumpkin peel for many useful substances and it keeps them in pulp during heat treatment.
If vegetable nevertheless needs to be cleaned, made it it is possible a sharp knife or a deck-pillar (the device for cleaning of vegetables). Choose that it is more convenient for you, cut off a tail and a bottom and divide pulp into convenient pieces — usually it is quarters.
If vegetable pear-shaped, separate the extended neck from a round part and then already cut. To rind small parts much more simply — to start it it is possible to clean off small pieces, and then, having got skilled at — long strips.
There is no special technology, there is a small cunning — the pulp which is warmed up in the microwave within one minute separates from a peel much easier. This method is suitable for small pumpkins more. The cut pieces are not recommended to be processed in the microwave — it leads to destruction of vitamins.
How to store in house conditions
Pumpkin can be stored houses from a season to a season, at the same time ripen and improve the flavoring properties. The vegetable laid for storage has to be faultlessly whole — neither dents, nor grazes, nor specks because in one or two months they will turn into the rotting centers.
The fruit leg guarantees safety of a fruit so do not tear off and do not cut off it before a bookmark on storage. It is the most convenient to store pumpkins in a cellar — place them on racks buttocks down far away from each other.
It is necessary to maintain the average temperature, low humidity in a cellar and not to leave the turned-on light. Inhabitants of city apartments will suit storage of these vegetables on the glazed balconies and loggias.
They need to be spread out on rough burlap with intervals in fifteen centimeters and to cover with burlap from sunlight. During strong cold weather it is necessary to wrap up vegetables with blankets that they were not chilled. Those vegetables on which damage traces appeared need to be started up in cooking first of all. If you cut vegetable and prepared only a part, and now do not know what to do from the remains, hide them in the deep freeze. It is previously necessary to peel the rest and sunflower seeds, to dry it a paper towel and to turn in a foil.
In such look vegetable will quietly lie the whole month. Still pumpkins can be stored in the deep freeze, when there is no balcony. Then it is necessary to cut them in cubes or to grate if the place is not enough, to spread out on tight packages and to freeze.
Whether you know? In one of American states, Illinois, there is a city which is recognized as the pumpkin capital of the world. It is called Merion. Despite the little population — only sixteen thousand people, Merion annually holds cheerful pumpkin festivals on which residents of all neighboring towns and even states gather. By the way, for the first time Europeans got acquainted with pumpkin in America and there was it in a distant XVI century.
Dried pumpkin easy also takes not enough place — remember how many in it moisture? Treat it the same as with pears and apples — slice convenient and put in the electrodryer or an oven at 60 °. Duration of processing depends on thickness of slices and their ripeness. It is possible to store such dried vegetable only at low humidity, otherwise on it the mold will appear.
Cosmetic recipes
Pumpkin belongs to those fertile vegetables which it is possible as is, and to apply outwardly. It is a part of the rejuvenating masks, refreshes complexion at the expense of nicotinic acid and stimulates production of collagen with fabrics thanks to vitamin E.
Group B vitamins which are a part of pulp protect skin from the ultraviolet rays accelerating aging and stop inflammatory processes (relevant for problem skin). Such masks instantly work — the result is visible right after washing.
To tighten a face contour use a yolk mask. Mix one yolk with a tablespoon of buckwheat honey and add two tablespoons of the boiled or steamed pulp. A brush or the cosmetic pallet apply a mask to face skin and stand her twenty minutes. Wash away camomile broth. If skin the dry and angry, olive mask humidifies it and will calm. It is necessary to mix three tablespoons of the boiled and ground pulp with one tablespoon of oil and on massage lines to apply the received mix to face skin.
Such mask quickly is absorbed, best of all to take off it paper towels or cotton pads in fifteen minutes after drawing. It is possible to wash cool water without soap and a milk.
For fat, pimpled face skin the proteinaceous mask will become the real rescue. Egg white of one egg needs to be beaten in foam and to mix with one tablespoon of boiled pulp. After drawing the feeling of tightness can appear — means, the mask began to work. Wash away it warmish water or rather weak tea, having sustained twenty minutes.
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