Pumpkin – really universal vegetable! Not only pulp, but also seeds, and even oil that is received from them, have the properties strengthening health. Surprisingly and the fact that pumpkin fruits in botanical sense are berries. Pumpkins can have weight to one hundred kilograms so it also the biggest berry of the world. Than pumpkin sunflower seeds are useful and whether are useful in general?
Pumpkin seeds – fried or salty – great snack. They are often used in pastries. Antioxidants that contain in pumpkin sunflower seeds, strengthen immunity and help to reduce the number of free radicals.
Seeds of pumpkin and especially oil of seeds of pumpkin recommend at a prostate disease. The beneficial influence of pumpkin sunflower seeds on a good-quality giperplaziya of a prostate is scientifically proved. There are proofs of positive influence and on malignant (cancer) new growths.
I advise those who easily catches a cold to cook pumpkin soup: it has property to warm from within. The warming effect amplifies if to add to soup of a curry or Chile - these spices stimulate thermogenesis.
Squeeze out high-quality vegetable oil of seeds of pumpkin. It contains valuable fatty acids, polyunsaturated an omega-6 fatty acids and essential oils. Besides, oil of seeds of pumpkin is famous for a large amount of vitamin E and also A, B1, B2, B6, C and D vitamins, minerals: calcium, phosphorus, potassium, copper, magnesium, iron, manganese, selenium and zinc.
Oil of pumpkin sunflower seeds contains also phytosterols which make positive impact on all organism, reducing cholesterol level. Thus, the handful of pumpkin sunflower seeds two-three of times a week prolongs in the long term life term for several years.
Because of the high content of valuable polyunsaturated fatty acids oil of pumpkin seeds quickly spoils, becomes rancid therefore it should be stored in the fridge in a close container.