If you’re carving pumpkins or cooking squash for fall meals, you may be interested to know you could be fighting cancer, especially if you consume the seeds! While eating these fruits does not fight cancer in itself, a protein compound in the flesh and seeds known as cucurmosin is showing promise in the treatment of several forms of cancer.
Here are four types of cancer showing how compounds in pumpkin are offering new hope for the development in new treatments:
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