Pumpkin seed kernels also contain essential trace elements for the human body, such as zinc, manganese, and chromium. Zinc can counteract the hypertensive effects of heavy metal cadmium. Zinc and manganese are key components of the pituitary gland, pancreas, and gonads. Chromium promotes glucose utilization and cholesterol excretion, and is closely related to maintaining heart health, normal endocrine function, and resisting aging. The phospholipids in pumpkin seed kernels can enhance the vitality of brain cells and play an important role in promoting hematopoiesis, refining the skin, wound healing, improving brain nerve function, and enhancing digestive capacity.
Pumpkin seeds are very nutritious, rich in fat, protein, carbohydrates, vitamin A precursor, vitamin E, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and various essential mineral elements for the human body. At the same time, they release a high amount of calories. The fat they contain is essential fatty acids for the human body, such as linoleic acid, which is a component of prostaglandins in the body and has various regulatory effects on the body's physiological and biochemical processes, such as dilating blood vessels, lowering blood pressure, promoting urination and sodium excretion, regulating the tension of bronchial smooth muscle, and promoting intestinal peristalsis.
The vitamin E content in sunflower seeds is extremely rich. Eating a handful of sunflower seeds daily can meet the human body's daily requirement for vitamin E, and it is also beneficial for stabilizing mood, preventing cell aging, and preventing adult diseases. Foreign experts believe that sunflower seeds can treat insomnia, enhance memory, and have certain therapeutic effects on preventing cancer, hypertension, and neurasthenia. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sunflower seeds have the effects of calming the liver, lowering blood pressure, moistening the lungs, and expelling parasites.
Pumpkin seeds contain over 50% oil, as well as protein, urease, and vitamin A precursor. Pumpkin seeds are also a specific remedy for expelling parasites, and have a strong expelling effect on tapeworms, roundworms, and flukes parasitic in the human body. Pharmacological tests have shown that its squeezed juice can kill tapeworms within 45 minutes. At the same time, it also has the effect of promoting and increasing milk production for postpartum women.
Watermelon seeds are rich in fat, protein, and vitamin B2, and also contain a saponin substance, which has the effects of clearing the lungs, moistening the intestines, harmonizing the middle energizer, stopping bleeding, quenching thirst, and strengthening the stomach, as well as the effect of lowering blood pressure and relieving acute cystitis.
However, excessive consumption of various types of seeds can cause excessive fat accumulation in the gastrointestinal tract, leading to bloating, diarrhea, and even obesity. Excessive consumption can also cause soreness of the throat and tongue, chapped lips, and other issues, which should be noted.