CUCURBITA FOR THE LOCAL WISDOM IN INDONESIA

THE GRANDMOTHER LEGEND:
In the ancient time, at each delivery new born baby,the cooked winter squash with coco sugar is always served as the first foodfor the whole family and the neighbor who help the parturition.
 
WHAT IS THE ‘SECRET’ BEHIND THAT?
Now we found that:
Cup of winter squash fruit juice (70 cc) is enough to meet the daily need of provitamin A for baby and the children

70 gram blanched cut winter squash fruit with cooked minced meat is a good breakfast menufor adults in the term of fiber and provitamin A daily intake
 
Winter squash fruit flour can enrich composite flour for biscuits and cookies, as well as cakes.
 
Dried and freeze winter squash fruit slice and winter squash fruit flourare important commodities in Asia and the USA. The dried or freeze food winter squash fruit sliced can be reconstituted as breakfast or dinner. Winter squash fruit  flour can be used to enriched cosmetics product as an agent of skin cancer because of its  lutein and beta-caroten content
 
This poster was made and published by Prof. Murdijati Gardjito and Dimas Rahadian AM on: