While most people see pumpkins just as an item for decoration, others are well aware of its nutritional values. It is one of the healthiest foods you can ever have.
Firstly, it is full of minerals and vitamins, which help to keep various diseases away. Secondly, it has a very low calorie content that helps you maintain your body weight by not putting on extra fat. Pumpkins can be prepared in many ways and you can have them in soups, deserts and salads.
Pumpkins would be a very helpful food for the Americans as in USA obesity is one of the major health problems. Pumpkin is very nutritious and filled with minerals and vitamins that help you keep yourself fit.
As per the data available from the records of USDA, a cup of cooked or boiled pumpkin without salt has 0.17 g fat, 49 calories, 12 g carbohydrate, 1.76 g protein and no cholesterol at all. Absence of cholesterol eliminates the chances of heart problems.
If you eat a cup of boiled pumpkin, you will get all the required quantity of vitamin A in a day, 10% of vitamin E that is required in a day, 20% of vitamin C that is required in a day and at least 10% of most other minerals required.
The benefits of eating pumpkin is huge and controls obesity, diabetes, overall mortality and giving a healthy complexion are just a few of them.
This also helps in dealing with troublesome health conditions like blood pressure, certain types of cancer, infertility, poor eye sight and weak immunity.