Do you eat pumpkins?. Do you know that pumkins kills carcinogens in your body?.  They are very good for your bowels and one of the best food God blessed Nigeria with but a lot of us disregard it may be because of the way some people prepare it. How do you prepare yours?. Do you eat your like that[like me] or do you use any type of sauce to eat them?. I want us to increase the pumpkin eating awareness through sharing our different cultural methods of preparing them so that others that do not eat it may give it a trial.

What scientific proof do you have that pumpkins 'kill carcinogens'? What do pumpkins contain that cannot be found in other foods? Or is this simply some scheming move by you to sell more pumpkins from your farm?

Or is this simply some scheming move by you to sell more pumpkins from your farm?

Abeg no come spoil my business for here.

Speaking about pumpkins, does anybody know if pumpkin seeds are a good substitute for melon seeds (egusi)? Has anybody ever used ground pumpkin seeds to prepare egusi soup, same way you would use ground melon seeds? Anyone?   

To OP - Don't mean to usurp your thread. Trying to save Nairaland space, in the spirit of going green 

Alloy, there is this seed my mom used to cook i think it is called Ofin or so. do you know it? is it not from pumpkin?

isn't pumpkin leaf same as Ugwu? who has tasted pumpkin seed before?

I have pumpkin pie once in a blue moon. . . . .otherwise. . . .not really, except for all that orange during halloween!!

isn't pumpkin leaf same as Ugwu? who has tasted pumpkin seed before?

Nne mba, ugu/ugwu is cucumber.

Nwoke, ugwu is cucumber leaf? are you really sure?

what abt the huge pod with edible seed? any idea? pple call it pumpkin, ?

spikedcylinder:

Are pumpkin leaves included in this war against carcinogens?

Yes, pumpkin leaves (green leafy vegs, in general) are said to contain vitamin A, enhances the immune system, good antioxidant.

Nwoke, ugwu is cucumber leaf? are you really sure?

what abt the huge pod with edible seed? any idea? pple call it pumpkin,

The huge pod is the cucumber while leaf is called the cucumber leaf.

[b]Speaking about pumpkins, does anybody know if pumpkin seeds are a good substitute for melon seeds (egusi)? [/b]Has anybody ever used ground pumpkin seeds to prepare egusi soup, same way you would use ground melon seeds? Anyone?

We are not oyibo that try new things. Africans love to practice the same thing their ancestors did. This is a very good idea because pumpkin seeds look exactly like melon seeds only that it's thinner and more flaccid. I am sure that if you dessicate and peel it, it can substitute for egusi with a lesser or no cholesterol. David Dylan and 4play, make una take note.

Pumpkin leaf is fifferent,babe. It's called Ugboguru in igbo[usually wide, lighter green with soft stems and has more water than ugu leaf] . You can use them to cook vegetable yam.

Alloy, have you tasted this seed from the huge pod am talking abt? what's it called again? something like ofin??, i can't remember. this pod is huge, normally when you harvest them, you cut into the pod and remove the seeds and cooked in water. when done, you break into it and remove the whitish edible. anyone seen this before? i think common in the south and east. but i saw it planted in the west.

now i called it pumpkin but Aloy, you are confusing me that it's cucumber ooo nwoke. abi cucumber in the US is something different?

Emeka seems to be right but I think I'll still need further clarification sha because it has been referred to as Pumpkin leaves for as long as I've known.

Cucumber leaves:
[img]http://gardendesk.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54efed4088834011279151be128a4-pi[/img]

Pumpkin leaves:
[img]http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/CA25677D007DC87D/LUbyDesc/av51/$File/pumplea2.jpg[/img]

Cooked pumpkin is a super cancer food.
One half cup of cooked pumpkin has over five times your quota for beta-carotene (vitamin A0) per day.
According to research at Tufts University it may be used to protect against many cancers

Not much difference in the leaf per se as both cucumber & pumpkin are from the same family.

The cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae), commonly referred to as ‘cucurbits’, includes cucumbers, melons, quashes, pumpkins, and gourds.

Thanks Amakaone for the pictures. It's a shame that we africans do not help in defining these crops because ugu is not in that picture. The picture is more like ugboguru(pumpkin leaves).

TOYOSI20:
I have pumpkin pie once in a blue moon. . . . .otherwise. . . .not really, except for all that orange during halloween!!

Old thread (I browse back sometimes) but wow. Anything with pumpkin is usually lit but pumpkin pie especially’s a shout. Hashtag next month/Halloween orange shenanigans.