This Pumpkin Juice Reduces Stress, Boosts Your Mood, and Improves Sleep Quality

Last updated on 18 NOV 2017

Despite what you may see when you walk through your neighborhood, pumpkins are good for way more than carving, painting, and their seeds. In fact, pumpkins are one of the healthiest foods you can include in your diet. As an added bonus, pumpkins are excellent for juicing. Their unique taste can make any type of juice richer and more filling.

If you’re looking for more reasons to include pumpkin in your diet and if you want to be able to have good eyesight well into your elderly years, keep reading to learn more about pumpkin.

Why Pumpkin Should Be A Part Of Your Diet

As you learn about the health benefits of pumpkins, you’ll wonder why you aren’t eating them every day already. The bright, rich color of a pumpkin is from the carotenoids. Carotenoids are chemical compounds that are known for protecting your eyesight. However, carotenoids aren’t just good for eyesight, they can also improve your skin complexion and prevent cancer.

If you have an active life, or hope to have an active life—start working pumpkin into your daily routine now. Pumpkins are a long-lasting energy source, they reduce fatigue and improve athletic performance.

Benefits of Drinking Pumpkin Juice

You may be curious as to why pumpkin juice is often preferable to regular pumpkin. Pumpkin, as it is, is an extremely filling food. Because of that, you may only be able to eat a little bit before you get full.

Eating pumpkin by itself every day may get you sick of the taste. However, if you make it into a juice, you can mix with other fruits and vegetables to make it a little more interesting. These are only a short list of the health benefits of pumpkin juice:

Supports your immune system with its high vitamin C content
A natural remedy for morning sickness
Supports digestive health, allowing your body to get rid of toxins more quickly
Calms anxious nerves naturally, without the side effects of medications
Strengthens blood vessels and prevents the buildup of plaque in the veins
Supports liver and kidneys health
Reduces the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines

Recipe for Mood Booster Pumpkin Juice

Making your own pumpkin juice is extremely easy. This recipe enriches the natural flavor of pumpkin with other fruits. To get started, make sure you have these ingredients:

½ a small pumpkin with stem and seeds removed, leave skin on
1 red apple
½ lemon with peel removed
1-inch chunk of ginger root with skin removed

To make your pumpkin juice, simply run all of these ingredients through your juicer. A slow juicer can juice these ingredients easily and produce a smooth juice. If using a centrifugal juicer, a little more pumpkin may be needed as the juice yield is not as high as that of a slow juicer.

The health benefits of pumpkin mean that it should be part of everyone’s diet. Even if you have never had pumpkin before in your life, it is not too late. Get started today!

Reference:
https://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jmf.2006.234

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About Sara Ding

Sara Ding is the founder of Juicing-for-Health.com. She is a certified Wellness Health Coach, Nutritional Consultant and a Detox Specialist. She helps busy men and women identify their health issues at the root cause, in order to eliminate the problems for optimum physical/mental health and wellbeing.