Kuerbiskernoel: Health Benefits
Of Pumpkin Seed Oil
Pumpkin seed oil is not unknown
to humankind. It is one of those mysterious oils most people do not know
a lot about. Pumpkin seed oil can help you
nutritionally. This has been proven over the years, in Europe .
The difficulty that one encounters with respect to trying to obtain pumpkin
seed oil, has to do with the reality that pumpkin seeds have hard shells. That makes extraction of pumpkin
seed oil from the shells, difficult.
Pumpkin seed oil or
Kuerbiskernoel comes from the Styrian puimpkin, grown in the Styrian region of
southeastern Austria and Ontario , Canada
Being a Canadian and living in
Ontario, as well has having seen a pumpkin farm, first hand, makes pumpkin seed
oil interesting to me. Few people see the pumpkin as anything other than something
used to make Jack-o-lanterns for Halloween or pumpkin pie filling for
Thanksgiving.
The Styrian pumpkin is unique,
as it has a greenish-yellow skin. The flesh is yellowish-orange in color. The
unusual seeds in this pumpkin, do not have a shell, which allows for easier
processing of the pumpkin seed oil.
Have you ever attempted to extract oil from
a pumpkin seed? Can you imagine how difficult that is when it involves crushing
a hard shell, first?
Being aware that there is a
pumpkin that does not have a hard shell, solves that problem. That is one of
the reasons why pumpkin seed oil has been used by chefs, for generations, in
both Austria and Slovenia
This is how the pumpkin seed
oil is made. When the pumpkins ripen in the field, they are harvested. The seeds
are removed, washed, dried and roasted at a high temperature, for only a few
minutes. Then, they are put through a press, which allows the release of dark
greenish-black oil, which is relatively thick in consistency.
At times, there is sunflower
seed oil added to the pumpkin seed oil, in order to thin it out, but this is
not recommended, as the pure pumpkin seed oil is preferable with respect to its
nutritional value.
The pumpkin seed oil is bottled
and used in salad dressing, in conjunction with apple cider vinegar and salt.
It retains the flavor encountered in nuts. It is used to make sausages, sauces
and cakes.
Pumpkin seed oil has a high
nutritional value. It contains vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C, D, E and K. It is
high in calcium and magnesium and has more than a sixty percent unsaturated,
fatty acid content. It also has an elevated vegetable protein level.
The health benefits of pumpkin
seed oil include the regulation of cholesterol in the human body and its usage
for the treatment of bladder and prostrate gland problems.
For further information please
see the following web site, the source of this information.
(1)
http://www.essortment.com/all/pumpkinseedoil_rgpr.htm
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