Nutritional value of pumpkin blossoms

When I think of pumpkin flowers, I remember that my mother often made pumpkin flower cakes for me when I was a child. They were very delicious and I still want to eat them now. Here I will tell you the specific method:

Squash Blossoms:

Pumpkin flower is both a vegetable and a medicine. It can clear away dampness and heat, reduce swelling and blood stasis, fight cancer and prevent cancer, and has an auxiliary effect in treating jaundice, dysentery, cough, carbuncle, conjunctivitis, mastitis and many other inflammations, and is often used as a health food to strengthen the body.

Pumpkin Blossom Features:

Practice has proved that its pollen can eliminate fatigue, enhance the fighting spirit of athletes, help the elderly regain youthful vitality, make children grow and increase their intelligence, and help the sick and weak recover soon; it has certain auxiliary therapeutic effects on anemia, chronic constipation, colorectal diseases, hypertension, headaches, stroke and other diseases in children, and can also help adjust the nervous state and improve insomnia.

The rutin it contains also has the auxiliary functions of promoting blood vessel and heart function, promoting blood coagulation, and preventing bleeding.

Pumpkin flower: apricot yellow, monoecious, solitary. Male flower corolla lobes are large, with long and pointed tips; female flower calyx lobes are leaf-shaped; stigma is three, swollen, two-lobed. Pedicel is about 30 cm long.

The receptacle is green and pentagonal. The pedicel, receptacle, and corolla are all edible.

Peel the pedicel, remove the surface of the receptacle, and remove the pistil from the flower, and the rest can be eaten.