Pumpkin is a cultivar of herbaceous plant, which are commonly of Cucurbita Pepo, and are usually

round, with smooth slightly ribbed skin . Pumpkin are variety in colour depending on the originating region but are mostly deep yellow to orange in coloration.

They are widely grown for commercial and agricultural uses ranging from animal feed and ornamental purposes. It remain one of the oldest domesticated plants, having been used as early as 7,500 to 500 BC.

The entire structure of pumpkin are versatile and edible in consumption including the leaf, fleshy shell, the flowers and even the seeds. They can be boiled roasted when ripe and sometimes smash and introduced to soup. Its seed can be roasted and eating as snack and their leaves are consume as a cook vegetable depending on tradition and way of living of a place.

General Benefits

Pumpkin having rich in vitamin A, plays a vital role in the visual cycle, specifically during retinal formation as deficiency in Vitamin A inhibit reformation of rhodopsin which as a result could cause night blindness

It prevent stimulation that hinder good production of blood cells.

It help in Architecture of skin by switching immature skin cell into mature ones.

Pumpkin is used to avoid scurvy which is caused by deficiency in Vitamin C.

Its antioxidant agent works to reduce adverse effect of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

Raw Pumpkin provides sufficient amount of food energy.

Pumpkin are often recommended by veterinarians as a dietary supplement for dogs and cats experiencing digestive problem likewise in poultry to help maintain production egg production.



It has been extensively used as folk medicine in America, and some part of Europe to treat intestinal worms and urinary ailment, also irritable bladder and benign prostatic.

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