Effects and functions of red dates and pumpkin porridge

Red dates and pumpkin are ingredients that we usually eat. They can not only be eaten alone, but also cooked together to make porridge. This will make their nutritional value higher and the benefits to people's health will be more obvious after eating. So what are the effects of cooking porridge with red dates and pumpkin?

1. Regulate the spleen and stomach

Red dates and pumpkin porridge can regulate the spleen and stomach and improve the digestive ability of the spleen and stomach. Red dates themselves are a kind of food that can nourish the spleen and stomach, and the pumpkin contains some natural gums, which have obvious protective and repairing effects on human gastric mucosa and can prevent gastritis. Moreover, cooking it with red dates and drinking it can also promote bile secretion and reduce the damage of irritating substances to the stomach and intestines.

2. Prevent hypertension and thrombosis

Cooking red dates and pumpkin together to make porridge can also prevent high blood pressure and thrombosis. Some of the nutrients they contain can remove cholesterol from the blood, reduce the level of triglycerides, increase platelet activity, prevent platelet aggregation, and increase blood vessel permeability, which can keep blood pressure stable and significantly reduce the chance of thrombosis.

3. Detoxification

Red dates are a food ingredient with detoxifying effects. They can relieve physical discomfort caused by taking medicines. Pumpkin contains pectin, which can clear out a variety of heavy metals accumulated in the human body. Cooking them together into porridge and drinking them can also reduce the harm of radioactive substances to the human body. Regular consumption of them has a particularly obvious detoxifying effect.

4. Prevent malnutrition

Cooking red dates and pumpkin together into porridge can make the nutrients they contain easier for the human body to absorb and utilize. It can allow the human body to absorb rich plant protein and a variety of trace elements, especially zinc, iron and phosphorus. The content of these substances is relatively high. Iron can replenish blood, phosphorus can promote calcium absorption, and zinc can promote physical development. It has a certain preventive effect on human developmental delay and malnutrition.