Children don't have a concept of eating, so it's easy to eat more when they meet the food they like, but it's easy to distend when they're not careful. Pumpkin has the function of protecting gastric mucosa and helping digestion. Can baby eat pumpkin with accumulated food, OK? Can eating pumpkin eliminate accumulated food?
Reason:
Because pumpkin has the function of protecting gastric mucosa and helping digestion, it can relieve the baby's symptoms of food accumulation.
Specific analysis:
1. The pectin contained in pumpkin can also protect the gastrointestinal mucosa from the stimulation of coarse food and promote the healing of ulcer surface, which is suitable for patients with gastric diseases.
2. Pumpkin ingredients can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion.
The effect of pumpkin
1. Pumpkin not only has a high edible value, but also has a therapeutic effect.
2. According to the South Yunnan Materia Medica, pumpkin is warm, sweet and non-toxic. It can run the spleen and stomach, nourish the lungs and Qi, dissipate phlegm and pus, dispel insects and detoxification, treat cough and asthma, treat lung carbuncle and constipation, and have the functions of diuresis and beauty.
3. Domestic and foreign medical experts and scholars have shown that eating pumpkin seeds can also alleviate the symptoms of prostate hypertrophy (pumpkin seeds can treat prostate hypertrophy), prevent prostate cancer, prevent arteriosclerosis, gastric ulcer and stone.
Nutritional value of pumpkin
There are many beneficial ingredients in pumpkin, such as polysaccharide, amino acid, active protein, carotenoid and many trace elements. It also contains guaramin, arginine, aspartin, cucurbitacin, adenine, glucose, mannitol, pentosan and pectin.
Functions of various components:
1. Polysaccharides:
Pumpkin polysaccharide is a kind of non-specific immune enhancer, which can improve the immune function of the body, promote the production of cytokines, and play various regulatory functions on the immune system by activating complement and other ways.
2. Carotenoids:
The abundant carotenoids in pumpkin can be transformed into vitamin A with important physiological functions in the body, which has important physiological functions for the growth and differentiation of epithelial tissue, maintenance of normal vision, and promotion of bone development.
3. Mineral elements:
Pumpkin with high calcium, high potassium and low sodium is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and patients with hypertension, which is conducive to the prevention of osteoporosis and hypertension. In addition, it also contains phosphorus, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, boron and other elements.
4. Amino acids and active proteins:
Pumpkin contains many kinds of amino acids needed by human body, including lysine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, threonine and so on. In addition, ascorbic acid oxidase genotype in pumpkin is the same as that in tobacco, but its activity is significantly higher than that in tobacco, which indicates that the content of immune active protein in pumpkin is higher.
5. Lipids:
It was found that the lipids in pumpkin seeds had good therapeutic and preventive effects on urinary system diseases and prostatic hyperplasia.