Health functions of pumpkin powder
In ancient China there are records of the health effects of pumpkin diet, "Compendium of Materia Medica", Li pumpkin and Ganoderma lucidum together, say it to fill in, the the Bugan air, Yixin gas, lung benefits, Yijing gas Where chronic illness Qi, spleen and stomach, shortness of breath, fatigue, eat less bloating, edema, oliguria it is appropriate. Recent studies also show that the pumpkin has a variety of therapeutic health effects and much people of all ages, especially as the effects of a prevention of diabetes nutrition health food.
1 hypoglycemic function
The pumpkin is one of our traditional hypoglycemic food, Japan in the 1970s, application of pumpkin powder treatment of diabetes were reported. Over the years, many researchers have been dedicated to the the pumpkin prevention of diabetes research, proposed pumpkin pectin, cyclopropyl amino acids and trace elements zinc, chromium (Cr) may play a major role pumpkin prevention of diabetes. Chromium content of the pumpkin ranks first of all kinds of vegetables.
2 lipid-lowering function
Extract separated from the pumpkin pumpkin polysaccharide, through animal experiments that pumpkin polysaccharide in diabetic mice significantly reduced the serum TG, Tch and LDL. Serum TG, Tch and LDL-promoting factor of atherosclerosis, especially elevated LDL is a risk factor of myocardial infarction. Chemical composition of pumpkin polysaccharide containing a large number of uronic acid, the more negatively charged acidic gene, suggesting that the role of pumpkin polysaccharide may have a similar phospholipid, to remove cholesterol and prevent arteriosclerosis. In addition, pumpkin polysaccharide with negative charge at physiological pH, and LPL combined and released into the blood from the artery wall, promote chyle particles of VLDL degradation, prevention of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases.
3 for cancer prevention effect
Pumpkin contains the alkaloid trigonelline, pumpkin seeds, alkali and other physiologically active substances, to eliminate and catalytic decomposition of carcinogenic nitrosamines and effective prevention and treatment of cancer.