OPTIMIZATION OF THE EXTRACTION PROCESS BY MACERATION OF PUMPKIN SEED CUCURBITA PEPO
Mahi LATIFI, Nora LATIFI, Albin RUFATI, Petrit LATIFI, Edona LATIFI
Journal of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of UT
Abstract
Cucurbita pepo-pumpkin seed is a product that has special importance both in the food industry and in the pharmaceutical industry. Its use in the food industry dates back to ancient times and has been used unprocessed, but in recent times since the year 2005, scientific research highlighted the healing ability of this product, starting to research different methods for producing extracts due to the conductive ingredients of this product, which have a specific application in medicine, especially the healing ability of prostate and the following diseases in this field, this is due to its very good antioxidant properties, it made this product to be used widely pharmacy. First, to get the extract, there was used the processing method, but the results were not satisfactory due to the complicate