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PUMPKIN SEEDS CUTIVATION AND BENIFITS

 PUMPKIN SEEDS  CUTIVATION AND BENIFITS    Introduction  Cuisine Nutrition Oil Traditional medicine Market See also Bone health Weight loss and digestion The immune system Improving sleep quality Sexual, prostate, and urinary health     A pumpkin seed , also known as a pepita (from the Mexican Spanish : pepita de calabaza , 'little seed of squash'), is the edible seed of a pumpkin or certain other cultivars of squash . The seeds are typically flat and oval with two axes of symmetry, have a white outer husk , and are light green after the husk is removed. Some pumpkin cultivars are huskless and are grown only for their edible seed. [ 1 ] The seeds are nutrient - and calorie -rich, with an especially high content of fat (particularly linoleic acid and oleic acid ), protein , dietary fiber , and numerous micronutrients . Pumpkin seed can refer either to the hulled kernel or unhulled whole seed, and most commonly refers to the roasted end product ...

SEASAME SEEDS CUTIVATION AND BENIFITS

   SEASAME  SEEDS  CUTIVATION AND BENIFITS Introduction  Etymology Origins and history Botany Agriculture Cultivation Nutrition Composition Health effects Culinary use 15 Health and Nutrition Benefits of Sesame Seeds    Sesame   Sesamum indicum ) is a plant in the genus Sesamum , also called benne . [ 4 ] Numerous wild relatives occur in Africa and a smaller number in India. It is widely naturalized in tropical regions around the world and is cultivated for its edible seeds, which grow in pods. World production in 2018 was 6 million tonnes (5.9 million long tons), with Sudan , Myanmar , and India as the largest producers. Sesame seed is one of the oldest oilseed crops known, domesticated well over 3,000 years ago. Sesamum has many other species, most being wild and native to sub-Saharan Africa . S. indicum, the cultivated type, originated in India. It tolerates drought conditions well, growing where other crops fail. Sesame h...