How to make pumpkin juice at home: 10 recipes
Pumpkin is a truly versatile vegetable. It can be baked for snacks or creamy mashed soup. There are many recipes, it all depends on your imagination.
The fruit of this vegetable consists of a peel (about 17% of the total weight), pulp (about 73%) and seeds (about 10%). There are 26 calories per 100 g of pumpkin, as well as 1 g of protein, 0.1 g of fat and 4.4 g of carbohydrates.
This orange vegetable is rich in fiber, pectin and amino acids. It contains minerals, namely calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, fluorine, potassium, copper, zinc and iodine.
Pumpkin is low in fat, but it is not deprived of omega-3 fatty acids that are beneficial for heart health.
The health benefits of pumpkin juice
An abundance of antioxidants. Antioxidants (primarily beta-carotene and lutein), which are part of pumpkin juice, help protect the body from the harmful effects of free radicals that accumulate in the body and eventually cause the development of oncological diseases, pathologies of the cardiovascular and endocrine systems.
An abundance of beta-carotene. Beta-carotene, which is present in significant amounts in pumpkin juice, not only has antioxidant properties, but is also provitamin A. Due to this property, the juice…
