Pumpkins are very nutritious and extremely healthy food and vegetable. They can be used in many ways and be part of many various dishes.
Almost all parts of the pumpkins are edible, including the fleshy shell, the seeds, the leaves, and even the flowers.
They can be cooked (boiled, steamed), roasted in oven, be part of soups, potage, piree, pies, cakes, cookies, etc.
It's seeds have a high content of calories and protein and are very nutritious and extremely healthy. Some cultivars of Pumpkins are used to make very high quality homemade oil, but today it is rare.
Pumpkins are rich and contain:
Vitamins:
Vitamin A, Thiamine (B1), Riboflavin (B2), Niacin (B3), Pantothenic acid (B5), Vitamin B6, Folate (B9), Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin K
Minerals:
Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc
According to wikipedia.org, 'Pumpkins have been used as folk medicine by Native Americans to treat intestinal worms and urinary ailments, and this Native American remedy was adopted by American doctors in the early nineteenth century as an antihelmintic for the expulsion of worms. In Germany and southeastern Europe, seeds of C. pepo were also used as folk remedies to treat irritable bladder and benign prostatic hyperplasia.'
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