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Pumpkin (canned)

Healthy Smoothie Recipes with Canned Pumpkin

About Canned Pumpkin

Pumpkin is apart of the squash family and are native to North America.  They are currently grown all over the world, but North America continues to be the biggest producers.

Nutrition Benefits of Pumpkin

Pumpkins are an excellent source of Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A, and fiber.  They are also a decent source of iron, magnesium, potassium, copper, and manganese.  Because of this, they are well known for vision health and cancer prevention.  There are also a lot of benefits related to pumpkin seeds – which is an ingredient we list separately on our website.

Smoothie Tip

Use canned pumpkin with no added salt in order to get the best health benefits.  Read the label to make sure it’s 100% pumpkin and not something like, “pumpkin pie mix” or “pumpkin” – and there is added salt.

Nutrition Facts
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Pumpkin (canned) scores well for 6 health goals

This ingredient was scored for various health goals Learn more.

Learn why

Menopause

Recipe Score:94

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Breast Cancer

Recipe Score:92

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Diabetes (Type 2)

Recipe Score:90

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Blood Pressure

Recipe Score:88

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Cancer

Recipe Score:88

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Athletic Performance

Recipe Score:86

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The Research

Menopause

Menopause: Score 94

Summary:

Animal: Pomegranate improves depressive symptoms and bone properties in menopausal syndrome. It can potentially relieve climacterium symptoms, especially obesity and osteoporosis in menopausal females.

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Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer: Score 92

Summary:

Human: It contains Beta-carotene, which is associated with a lower risk of breast cancer. Beta-carotene reduces the risk of breast cancer development. Breast cancer risk may be affected by telomere length among low dietary intake of antioxidants such as beta-carotene.

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Diabetes (Type 2)

Diabetes (Type 2): Score 90

Summary:

Human: It increases serum beta carotene concentration, reduces body fat and improves insulin resistance.

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Blood Pressure

Blood Pressure: Score 88

Summary:

Contains magnesium, which is beneficial to blood pressure.

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Cancer

Cancer: Score 88

Summary:

Human: It may be associated with a reduced risk of lung cancer.

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Athletic Performance

Athletic Performance: Score 86

Summary:

Improves physical fatigue and exercise performance.

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How Our Scoring System Works

For each health goal, we assigned a score to each recipe and each ingredient. This helps you better understand the correlation that medical research is suggesting between foods and benefits to various health goals. Our scoring system is based on REAL RESEARCH published on pubmed.gov. This is a website that curates over 25 million different biomedical journals.

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What we consider when creating your scores:

  • 1Type of Study (human, animal, lab, or academic review)
  • 2Amount of Research
  • 3What the Research Says
  • 4How much of the ingredient we use (for the recipes)
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