Roasted pumpkin seeds a great post-Halloween snack
One of my favourite parts of the whole Halloween pumpkin carving tradition is roasting the seeds. I just thought they were a great snack with lots of iron and fibre … guess there’s more to the story, from Science Blogs
They report that, “From the results of the present study it is concluded that pumpkin seed protein isolate administration was effective in alleviating the detrimental effects associated with protein malnutrition and carbon tetrachloride intoxication.” Terblanche and colleagues explain that this indicates that pumpkin seed protein isolate has powerful antiperoxidative properties.
Tags: pumkin seeds, healthy snakcs
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