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The nutritional value of pumpkin and squash recipes

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The nutritional value of pumpkin Pumpkin, also known as Pumpkin, Pumpkin, wheat melon, pumpkin, pumpkin for the Cucurbitaceae fruits are cultivated all over the country. Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin of sweet, warm, spleen, stomach, there is Bu Zhong Yi Qi, Qingrejiedu the power applied to spleen qi is weak, malnutrition, lung carbuncle, water and fire burns. China's "Compendium of Materia Medica" words their "Bu Zhong Yi Qi." Pumpkin-containing citrulline, arginine, aspartic Mak Su and vitamins A, B, C, pectin, cellulose and so on. Pumpkin pectin can adjust in the stomach of food absorption rate, so that slow down the absorption of carbohydrates, soluble fiber foods can delay stomach emptying, controlling blood sugar rise after meals. Pectin is also excess cholesterol and body combined, so that reducing the absorption of cholesterol, blood cholesterol levels drop. Pumpkin therefore have "hypoglycemic lipid-lowering Jiapin" reputatio