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Cucurbita maxima Duchesne

Summary
Pumpkin is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family and commonly known as Kaddu with high nutritive value. Mature pumpkins are sweet, yellow or orange, contains carotene, pro-vitamin A. Pumpkin seeds have health benefits and contain Cucurbitacins which rid the body off intestinal parasites and are used as traditional remedy for tape worm.

Mode of Consumption : Boiled or cooked, fried
Plant Details Agro-climatic Zone Vernacular Names Pictures
Scientific Name: Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
Family: Cucurbitaceae Juss.
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Violales
Genus: Cucurbita L.
Fruiting Season: March to August
Parts: Fruit, Leaves
  • The North-Eastern Hill Region
  • The Middle Ganga Plain Region
  • The Western Coastal Region
  • The Gujarat Region
  • North-Western Mountain Region
  • The Deccan Interior Region & The Western Coastal Region
  • The Maharashtra Plateau Region & The Western Coastal Region
  • The South-Eastern Plateau Region & The Eastern Coastal Region
  • The Deccan Interior Region & The Eastern Coastal Region
  • The Upper Ganga Plain Region & The Middle Ganga Plain Region
  • The Lower Ganga Plain Region
 Assam : Ranga Lau
Bihar : Lal kaddu
Goa : Dudde
Gujarat : Lal Kolu
Jammu & Kashmir : Tumbi
Karnataka : Kandu gumbala
Kerala : Vellarimathan
Maharashtra : Lal Bhopala, Tambada bhopala
Manipur : Mairen
Mizoram : Mai
Nagaland : Rumuo
Odisha : Kakharu, Kumda, Mai
Tamil Nadu : Cimai-p-pucani
Uttar Pradesh : Lal kaddu
West Bengal : Calakumro, Kusmanda

Fruit


Sliced Fruit


Fruit bearing plant
Compound/Extract Activity Mode of Action Marker/References
Seed oilAnti-inflammatoryDown regulates levels of IL-6 and TNF-α in adipose tissue of high fat diet (HFD) obese rats.IL-6, TNF-α[1]
Major Class Metabolites (Content of bioactives: mg/100g Fresh Weight)
CarotenoidZeaxanthin: , β- Carotene: [1]
Vitaminα-Tocopherol: , γ-Tocopherol: [1]
Effect Observation DOI
Disease Formulation Reference Author TKDL
Information from Wealth of India Reference
  • Tender shoots and leaves are eaten in salads and the flowers are cooked and eaten as vegetable.
  • The seeds are also edible and they are anthelmintic and used as taenicide, diuretic and tonic.
  • The fruit pulp is often used as a poultice and applied to burns, inflammations and boils.
 CSIR(1950).The Wealth of India, Raw materials,Vol.-II ,P.394, New Delhi, India
4.2, 04.2.1, 04.2.1.1, 04.2.1.3, 04.2.2.3, 04.2.2.5, 04.2.2.6, 04.2.2.8
    CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat-6, Assam, India
    CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur-61,Himachal Pradesh, India