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Consume pumpkin to improve your intelligence
One of the best foods to include in a healthy diet is pumpkin. This vegetable adds nutrients and has extensive effects on the body.
Among the benefits of this food, which is little talked about, is to increase memory. Pumpkin has a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and nutrients, especially when it comes to the so-called angel hair or white pumpkin.
How does pumpkin help to be smart and have a good memory?
Frequent pumpkin consumption, due to the large amount of antioxidants it provides, helps delay the damage that free radicals can exert on brain cells. In addition to helping to have an agile mind by containing the nutrient folic acid.
Taking it regularly increases the speed of information processing by the brain, as well as memory capacity. Similarly, folic acid helps reduce the risk of mental disorders.
Also, the effect of beta-carotene, an antioxidant present in large quantities in organic white pumpkin, was reported, which reduces the risk of loss of memory capacity, providing protection to the brain.
For its part, pumpkin seed also provide nutrients that benefit thinking ability.
How to eat pumpkin?
There are many ways to prepare pumpkin, boiled in water, baked, roasted or pureed. It is a perfect vegetable to make many other recipes, such as for drinks and desserts.
Eating it raw is another alternative, you can grate it or place it in an extractor to juice it and accompany it with lemon or coriander. On the other hand, the seeds can be roasted to eat or added to smoothies.
It is best to consult a nutritionist to tell us what is the ideal way to integrate both elements into the diet.
What are the benefits of pumpkins?
There are plenty of reasons to incorporate pumpkin more frequently, because among its most important benefits are:
The contribution to the cardiovascular system and the heart.
Preserve the health of the eyes.
Maintains good skin health.
Strengthen the body's defenses and regulates digestion.
It helps to lose weight with its intake or to maintain it.
Next, I present a healthy way to eat it, in a mixture with quinoa.
Stuffed Pumpkin with Quinoa
An alternative to vary its preparation is that you can substitute it with rice, it is the Quinoa. The versatility of the pumpkin makes it adapt very well to any type of filling.
Ingredients
2 cups of cooked quinoa.
200 grams of cooked chickpeas.
100 grams of kale or spinach.
100 grams of grated cheese.
100 grams of dried blueberries.
1 large onion
2 cloves of garlic.
1 peanut butternut squash.
Extra virgin olive oil.
Salt and pepper.
How to prepare stuffed pumpkin
Start by preheating the oven to 200 °C.
Wash the pumpkin very well. Then, lengthwise, cut it in half and scoop out the seeds with a spoon.
Place baking paper in a mold until it is covered.
Drizzle both pumpkin halves with oil and add salt and pepper to taste. Place them, cut side down, in the pan and bake for about 50 minutes. That is, until the squash is tender but firm.
Meanwhile, sauté in a pan with a tablespoon of oil, the minced garlic and the onion in small cuts.
When the onion crystallizes. Add the previously washed spinach leaves and continue cooking for 1 or 2 more minutes.
After the time, remove from heat and add the rice or quinoa, chickpeas and blueberries to give a sweet touch if you like.
When the pumpkins are cooked, leave about 2 centimeters of edge when removing the pulp.
Combine the pulp with the combination of quinoa, chickpeas and blueberries, mix and rectify the seasoning. Then stuff the two pumpkin halves.
Take it to the oven , waiting to gratin the grated cheese, which has sprinkled on top for about 10 minutes or until filling is hot.
And ready! Our stuffed pumpkin is ready to serve.
Enjoy this healthy and very delicious stuffed pumpkin recipe as a side or dinner. Dare to serve it.
