Health benefits of Watermelon Seeds.😊

                                                                                   

Watermelon is one of the fruits that is replete with water. Watermelon is good for hydrating our body because it contains vitamin A, C, and potassium, zinc, fat and calorie.  The benefits of watermelon does not only come from its fruit but also its seeds.🍉

Nature has gifted us with many fruits and vegetables whose seeds are also eatables and are full of nutrients making them beneficial for health and beauty.Watermelon is one such fruit whose all parts can be eaten even rind also.Watermelon seeds are good for health and beauty.Let's see how they are beneficial for our health.

But Before we eat watermelon seeds, we should peel the seeds. Put in our mind not to swallow watermelon seeds without peeling them. In order to have their nutrition contents, we should chew them well before swallowing them.

We should also know the nutritional content of any fruit or vegetable before consuming it.So, let's have a look.

BEAUTY BENEFITS OF WATERMELON SEEDS.

The Nutrition Content of Watermelon Seeds: 🍉

100 gram watermelon seeds provides 600 calorie. It is the same as 10 slices of bread.
400 calorie are provided in the fat of watermelon seeds. The fat level in 100 gram of watermelon seeds is around 80% of our daily fat.
1/3 of watermelon seeds contain protein. The most essential protein in watermelon seeds is nisin.
Produced watermelon seeds are the good source of vitamin B such as  thiamine, niacin, and folic.
In 100 gram of watermelon seeds contains mineral such as magnesium (139%), manganese (87%), phosphorous (82%), zinc (74%), iron (44%), potassium (20%) and copper  (37%) among our daily mineral intake.

Watermelon seeds are rich of iron, potassium, vitamin, fat and calorie that are important for our body.

1. The Natural Source of  Amino Acid🍉

In order to have a proper function of our body, we need sufficient amino acid intake. Our body receives the amino acid intake in the form of glutamate acid and tryptohan. Watermelon seeds are the natural source of amino acid.  Another amino acid found in watermelon seeds are arginine and lysine. Lysine is essential for calcium absorption and collagen formation.
Arginine is used for increasing our metabolism system and cardiovascular health. Thus, consuming amino acid can increase our metabolism system, sexual health, and the organ of our cardiovascular system.

2. Magnesium Bank🍉

Magnesium is a one of the important minerals for our body. Based on the medical opinion, 100 gram of watermelon seeds provides 139% of magnesium that is needed by our body. This will foster metabolism, protein  synthesis and normalize our blood pressure. Moreover, they can control diabetes and hypertension.

3. Good For Sexual Health🍉

Watermelon seeds contain lycopene and several vitamins. They bring significant health effect for us. Besides, they are good for sexual purpose. Watermelon seeds increase male fertility. For male, lycopene is good for increasing their fertility as well as their sexual passion.
Based on a study, watermelon seeds bring similar function as a famous sexual medicine that prolongs the erection. Yet, they bring no side effect.  The existence of various vitamin facilitate the blood to flow smoothly. They maintain the activity of our nerves system and make our immune system stronger. Lycopene in watermelon seeds prevents us from early aging,too.

4. Combating Diabetes🍉

Diabetes patients can use watermelon seeds as part of their medication. Boil watermelon seeds for 40-45  minutes. We can drink it as if we drink tea everyday.

5. For Memory Sharpening🍉

Watermelon seeds are essential for building the strength of our memory. Consuming watermelon seeds helps us to make our memory sharp. The more often we consume watermelon seeds, the stronger your memory will be.

6. Controlling Our Blood Pressure🍉

Protein in watermelon seeds contains several amino acid. One of them is arginin. Arginin is essential for controlling our blood pressure and healing coronary heart disease. The others amino acid in watermelon seeds include tryptophan, glutamate acid, and lisin. The mineral that dominates most of watermelon seeds is magnesium. Magnesium has essential function for our health, especially for our heart because it controls our blood pressure as well as the carbohydrate metabolism in our body.

7. Preventing Our Digestive System🍉

Watermelon seeds are rich of fiber and vitamin B. Our body needs vitamin B to transform our food intake to become energy. The most vitamin B found in watermelon seeds is niacin. Niacin is essential for keeping our nerve system, digestive system and our skin health.  Another vitamin B in watermelon seeds include folic, thiamine, riboflavin, vitamin B6 and pantothenate acid.

8. Controlling Carbohydrate Metabolism and Blood Sugar🍉

Watermelon seeds contain a lot of mineral. Magnesium is the most mineral found in them. Magnesium is important for controlling our blood pressure and carbohydrate metabolism. The other important mineral in watermelon seeds are phosphor, iron, sodium, copper, mangan, and zinc.

9. Reducing Blood Cholesterol🍉

The fat found in watermelon seeds is monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, and fat acid omega 6. Based on The American Heart Association, both fats can reduce the level of our cholesterol and acid fat omega 6 can reduce blood pressure.

10. Healing Coronary Heart Disease🍉

Watermelon seeds are unbelievably claimed as part of coronary heart disease medication. They contain a lot of protein. Protein in watermelon seeds consist of several components and various amino acid. The amino acid is essential for healing coronary heart disease.

11. Preventing the Health of Our Skin🍉

Lisin in watermelon seeds are essential for the forming of collagen in our body to keep our skin healthy and prevent us from early aging. Watermelon seeds processed food can be used a s a healthy snack since they can meet the nutrition requirement that our body needs so that they can be used as a healthy diet snack.

12. Rich of Fiber and Vitamin B🍉

In several international research, watermelon seeds are proven effective since they contain various beneficial substances. Two of them are vitamin B and fiber. Vitamin B in watermelon seeds is niacin that beneficial for protecting the digestive system and skin.

13. Promoting Hair Growth🍉

Watermelon seeds are good for promoting hair growth since they contain copper. Our body needs pigment that brings color to our hair as well as to our skin. The copper content in watermelon seeds can produce hemoglobin. One once of watermelon seeds provide 192 micro gram or 21% of copper for our daily need.

14. Moisturizing Hair🍉

The oil of watermelon seeds can be used to moisture our hair since it is light and easy to absorb without disrupting the pores of our scalp.

15. Preventing Hair from Breakage🍉

Watermelon seeds oil is rich of fatty acids that are essential for our hair to make it moisture and safe from breakage.

16. Moisturizing Skin🍉

Watermelon seeds contain unsaturated fatty acids that moisturizes our skin. As a result, our skin becomes soft, firm, and acne free.

17. Preventing Skin Aging🍉

Since watermelon seeds contain antioxidant and oil that will make our skin look younger, healthier and more vibrant, they prevent us from early aging. Consuming a handful of watermelon seeds a week is the best choice for making our skin becomes more healthier.

18. Essential Ingredients for Baby Oil🍉

The oil of watermelon seeds are called Kalahari is essential for our skin. Since the texture is light and does not disrupt our skin pores, it acts as a great natural moisturizer. Therefore, it is also used as an essential ingredient for baby oil.

19. Skin Cleanser🍉

Its light texture helps us easily remove the dirt and grease in our skin pores. As a result, our skin will be healthy and acne free. The oil can be applied in any kind of skin types.

20. Combating Aging Degradation🍉

Watermelon seeds are helpful in combating aging degradation because it regenerates our skin elasticity.

21. Skin Cancer Protector🍉

Rich of various nutrition make watermelon seeds are powerful in protecting our skin from skin cancers as well as skin infection.

Watermelon seeds are essential for medication since they contain various substances that help us solving our health problems.

Now, point is how you can use watermelon seeds for health benefits.Here are some suggestions and tips.

■ For Malnutrition:

Drink them twice a day.
Mix them well and drink at once.
When it is warm, add a spoonful of honey.
Take a spoonful of the powder, put it in a cup and pour 3/4 hot water.
Dry watermelon seeds, minced until they become powder.

■For Diabetes:

Take a handful of watermelon seeds.
Boil them with a liter of water for 45 minutes in a closed pot.
After it is cold, drink it like we drink tea.
Drink it everyday.

■For Kidney Stones:

4 spoonful of fresh watermelon seed.
2 liter of water.
Mince them well and boil for 10 minutes.
Strain them and drink the water.
Add sugar or lemon.
Drink them twice a day during recovery period.

■For Bladder Infection:

Take 2 spoonful of watermelon seeds.
Boil them in 3 glasses of water in a closed pot.
Let them cold, drink 3-4 times a day  ( a spoonful each).
Drink them regularly until we get better.

Watermelon seeds offer benefit for people who are on diet and spend their time snacking  between their hectic days.

●Watermelon Seeds for Homemade Snack:

1/2 cup of watermelon seeds.
1/4 tea spoon of olive oil.
Add a little bit of sugar.
Mix them well.
Put them on a baking tray.
Roasted them for 10-15 minutes in 325 degree.
Homemade watermelon seeds snack is ready to serve.

Watermelon indeed brings numerous benefits for our health. We can eat them directly together with the fruit or we can eat them in the form of watermelon seeds processed food since they also share the same benefit.  However, we are suggested not to eat watermelon during our diet since its seeds contain a lot of calorie. Yet, for the same reason the snack made from watermelon seeds is perfect to consume before doing sport since they will make us full faster.

More about watermelon seeds🍉 -

1) Watermelon seeds are very beneficial for the diabetic patients also. Take a handful of watermelon seeds and boil it with one liter of water for about 45 minutes, keeping the vessel closed. Now take this concoction every day just as you drink tea. You will see the difference it makes to you.

2) 100 gm of watermelon seeds provide you about 139% of the magnesium that is needed by the body daily. This is essential for the normal functioning of the heart, to maintain the blood pressure, protein synthesis and for the maintenance of metabolism.

3) Lycopene contained in watermelon seeds is good for your face. It also improves fertility in males.
Amino acids are very essential for the body and the body is capable of producing them. But some of thee essential amino acids like lysine and arginine cannot be produced by the body. You get it only through food that contains them. Watermelon seeds contain these amino acids in plenty.

4) Lysine is required for the absorption of calcium and helps in the formation of collagen and connective tissues.

5) Arginine is needed for the improvement of metabolism, sexual health and cardiovascular system in the body.

6) Watermelon seeds are rich in multivitamin B like thiamine, folate, niacin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid and vitamin B6. These are necessary for your nervous system and to maintain healthy blood in the body. They are also needed to increase the immunity of your body.

7) Among the various constituents in watermelon seeds, about half of it include oil.20% of this oil consists of saturated fat while the rest includes monosaturated and polyunsaturated fat, which also include omega-6 fatty acids. If you take one cup of dried watermelon seeds, you will get about 50 gm of fat, of which 80% constitute the fat needed by the body every day. So if you want to get more calories and energy, include watermelon seeds in your daily diet.

8) Most of the people tend to suffer from protein deficiency, especially in poorer countries. This leads to many diseases like kwashiorkor and marasmus. Watermelon seeds are rich sources of protein and consuming them regularly helps in treating protein deficiency to a great extent. One cup of dried watermelon seeds provides you 30 gm of protein. Protein and amino acids essential for the growth and repair of muscles, connective tissues and skin. It is also vital for the production of enzymes. For long and strong nails you need protein.

9) Watermelon seeds are very effective in increasing and sharpening your memory and for recovering your health after an illness.
With so many benefits of watermelon seeds, do not throw away the seeds next time when you east watermelon. Use them and see how they make you healthy and strong.

How To Make Watermelon Seed Tea

Edward Cayce, the inventor of this tea, suggested making 2 liters of the tea at a time and consuming it over 2 days. For this you will need:

2 liters or 8 cups of water
4 spoons of watermelon seeds, fresh and ground
To make the tea, you need to boil the water on high heat. Then pour the hot water on the seeds in a bowl. Let the seeds steep in the hot water. Let the mixture cool and then strain it. The tea is ready for consumption. You can have it up to 4 times a day.

What You Should Keep In Mind

There are benefits of having watermelon seed tea, but you should not go overboard. Cayce did not recommend using the tea every day for a long period. If you are taking kidney infection medications, do not stop these without talking with your doctor.

( Source - Health magazine and Web )

Points to remember  -

1) Select watermelon seeds carefully.
2) Use them after peeling.
3) Never consume them if you are pregnant.Watermelon is good for pregnant women but watermelon seeds are dangerous incase you are pregnant.
4) Use appropriate amount only.Never use less than appropriate amount or excessive amount of them as excess of anything is dangerous.
5) Always consult your doctor before consuming if you have a particular health condition or problem.
6) Don't use incase of allergy.Consult doctor if any symptoms resist.

Note - Always be cautious if you have allergy.Use watermelon and other fruits in appropriate amount and order for positive impact.Excess of anything can be dangerous too.

                  A Post By Admin.

Author - Swatti Sharrma ß

Disclaimer - This blog is not intended to any advice or prescription.Always keep an eye on allergies you have.Keep check on your health conditions and allergies.Always do a patch test or allergy test before using any product or tip.Consult doctor and dermatologist if needed.Results may vary person to person and it depends on your skin type and health condition.Use any tip or products on your own wisdom with precaution.

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