Eating pumpkin for a long time may cause carotenemia, resulting in yellowing of the skin.
Pumpkin is the fruit of pumpkin plant of Cucurbitaceae family, which is a common fruit vegetable. Because pumpkin contains more carotene, such as every 100g pumpkin contains about 7116ug carotene, the content is very high.
Carotene belongs to the plant fat-soluble pigments, such substances are not water-soluble, can not be discharged directly from the body, but and the skin affinity is good, long-term intake can be deposited in the surface layer of the skin, resulting in yellowing of the skin. But generally stop eating carotene-rich foods, will gradually improve.
Pumpkin flesh dense, delicate taste, the general population can be eaten, but do not recommend long-term or large amounts of a particular food, daily diet should be balanced and diverse, so as to avoid nutritional imbalance.