Pumpkin has rather ill-defined taste. Therefore it is possible to cook from it the most various dishes: soups, garnishes, salads, desserts. This vegetable is perfectly combined practically with all food. Thanks to a set of wonderful properties of pumpkin, dishes from it are useful to both sick, and healthy people.
Instruction
1. At preparation of hot dishes from pumpkin try not to subject it to too long thermal treatment, otherwise the majority of the useful substances which are contained in this vegetable will simply collapse.
2. Thanks to the fact that pumpkin is capable to have good diuretic effect on a human body doctors recommend to include in the diet dishes from this vegetable to the people having various diseases of kidneys. Pumpkin dishes are especially useful to those whose diseases are followed by hypostases. This vegetable perfectly brings all excess substances out of an organism, without irritating at the same time gentle renal fabric.
3. Pumpkin contains huge amount of pectin – the substance promoting removal from an organism of harmful cholesterol and various toxins. Therefore pumpkin dishes are very useful to the people having atherosclerosis. Besides, presence them in a diet of the person normalizes a metabolism.
4. Thanks to the fact that pumpkin contains rather small amount of cellulose hit of its pulp on mucous a stomach and intestines doesn't cause irritation of these bodies. Therefore pumpkin dishes are very useful to the people having digestive tract diseases with excessive acidity. Frequent consumption of dishes from this vegetable promotes gradual healing of stomach ulcers and a duodenum.
5. Pumpkin is very rich with carotene. This substance in it contains several times more, than in carrots and beef liver. Therefore pumpkin dishes have to be as a part of a food allowance of the people having problems with sight.
6. Pumpkin dishes are useful also to the people having iron deficiency anemia thanks to a large amount in them of copper, cobalt, zinc and iron.
7. Besides, pumpkin dishes are recommended to be used to the people having cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, an anemia and also various chronic inflammatory diseases.