Chestnut pumpkin, as a kind of food, mainly contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, sugar, dietary fiber, minerals and vitamins and other essential nutrients. It is harmless to health after eating, and there is generally no taboo.

However, due to the high content of starch, sugar, dietary fiber and other substances in chestnut pumpkin, if you eat too much, it will easily increase the burden on the stomach and cause indigestion such as abdominal distension and abdominal pain, so chestnut pumpkin should not be eaten more.

2 Is chestnut pumpkin high in calories?

Chestnut pumpkin is low in fat, cholesterol and other substances, so the edible part of100g is only about 36 calories, which is a low-calorie food.

This low-calorie food can help control the calorie intake of food and achieve the effect of losing weight, and the vitamins, dietary fiber and other ingredients in chestnut pumpkin can promote the metabolism of the body, so chestnut pumpkin is very suitable for losing weight.

3 Difference between Chestnut Pumpkin and Beibei Pumpkin Although chestnut pumpkins and Beibei pumpkins are both pumpkins, their nutritional components and functions are basically the same, but their origin, appearance and taste are still different.

1, Source: Chestnut Pumpkin is an early-maturing pumpkin variety of small melon type, mainly produced in Northeast China, and Beibei Pumpkin is indeed a hybrid pumpkin from Japan.

2. Appearance: Chestnut pumpkin is small, the fruit is flat and round, and the peel has longitudinal patterns, while Beibei pumpkin is small and exquisite, with gray-green color, like a layer of fog, deep melon edges and bulging melon petals.

3. Taste: Chestnut pumpkin tastes dense and delicate, and has the taste of chestnuts, while Beibei pumpkin has both the sweetness of pumpkin and the glutinous powder of chestnuts, and there is almost no water, except for the faint chestnut taste, there is also the taste of sweet potatoes, and the taste is more diverse.

Can chestnuts and pumpkins be eaten raw? Raw food is not recommended.

Chestnut pumpkin contains a lot of starch and dietary fiber. If the tissue structure of these substances is not destroyed by cooking, it will easily increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and cause discomfort.

Moreover, uncooked food may contain some harmful bacteria and microorganisms. If it is not killed at high temperature, it will easily cause harm to health, so it is not recommended to eat chestnuts and pumpkins raw.