| Some interesting pumpkin facts:
The pumpkin type Lagenaria (Cucurbita Lagenaria L.), bottle pumpkin or grass hopper is related to a type of Cucurbita. Only one kind is known: L. vulgaris Ler., with many cultural varieties, having the name depending on the shape of the fruits: gourd, flask of wanderer, Hercules clava, kernel, sphere, greedy (up to 1 m length) and others — all these are so called figure pumpkins. Their stems are lengthy, twisting, soft – hairy; leaves are rounded – egg shaped, slightly lobar or polygonal, flowers are big, white, petals are free; fruits are non-edible (used for vessels) or edible. The origin of this plant is tropical Africa and the east Indies.
Once in your life time you bought (or grow on a windowsill) a pumpkin. You brought this excellent orange colored watermelon home and … cut the internal things from it, you made cutouts in the form of eyes and mouths, and you set the candle inside and put it in a dark room, in order to scare the guests who have come for Halloween. Sorrowfully enough, but this is the maximum, which can be expected from a pumpkin at the end of its life. But it was not created for this cruel amusement, it has accumulated the pulp and been exposed to heat under the rays of the burning sun, not for this it tolerated the frosts and fowl injections of bottle guards and begoons, so to was ignominiously killed to please a human being’s brutality!
The flavored pulp is fully packed of vitamins. There are ascorbic acid, which saves you from autumn chills, and vitamins of the group В, which not only manages tiredness, irritability, sleeplessness and it saves you from pimples, but also makes your hair thick, and nails strong, and vitamins A and E – the main aconites with pimples and pre ageing, and vitamin K, which influences the coagulability of blood, which is practically not available in other fruits.
Owing to the high content of the rare vitamin T pumpkins can be really called the best garnish for dishes from beef, pork and other fatty items, it is true that vitamin Т helps in the digestion of heavy food and hampers obesity. Probably thanks to this property only nutritionists like pumpkin, who recommend as a useful fruit for all who have dreamt for a long time to say goodbye to extra kilograms. Apart from this, the pumpkin is a champion among vegetables in relation to the content of iron; it means lovers of pumpkins are doomed to have a good color of the face and a cheerful mood. |
