Baked pumpkin puree for winter

The benefit of pumpkin dishes is that the valuable substances in the vegetable have a positive effect on the whole body.

The benefits of pumpkin for a woman's body is that the vegetable helps to preserve beauty and well-being. It improves the condition of the skin and returns a healthy complexion, helps to maintain a normal weight and brings great benefits when losing weight.

How to choose a pumpkin

First of all, you need to look at the tail of the vegetable. If you can see that it was cut, then, most likely, the fruit did not have time to ripen. In a mature vegetable, the stalk falls off on its own.

A good fruit should have a dense peel. Before buying, you can put a little pressure on it with your fingernail — if the skin has not broken through, the vegetable is ripe enough.

It is best to buy a whole, not a cut product. A vegetable with an open pulp spoils faster and may no longer be quite fresh at the time of purchase.

The ideal weight for a vegetable is from 3 to 5 kg. It is not necessary to choose a product exclusively for a large size, the pulp may be watery or dryish.

It depends on the variety, but if the inside of the vegetable is rich orange, it means that it has a lot of vitamin A. Such a fruit will be especially useful for vision, skin and hair.

A small fruit can be placed in the refrigerator — if the peel is not damaged, the vegetable will be able to retain its useful properties for up to 3 months. Individual slices must be wrapped in plastic wrap or foil, in which case they will lie in the refrigerator for a month.

You can save the product up to a year by deep freezing. To do this, the vegetable is cut into thin slices, placed in special containers or bags and sent to the freezer, where the temperature is not higher than – 18 ° C.