A healthy diet can play a big role in keeping your whole body healthy, including keeping your mouth clean and in good shape. In fact, eating nutritious foods can help prevent cavities, tooth decay, gum disease, and other harm that can be done by improper dental care. In this video, you’ll see why pumpkin seeds have oral health benefits that are good for your smile.
By saving one and a half cups of pumpkin seeds from your Halloween pumpkin carving, tossing them in salt and butter, and baking them, you can have a healthy fall snack as well as a spooky jack-o-lantern. Baking them at three hundred degrees Fahrenheit for forty five minutes should make the treat perfect to eat. Not only are pumpkin seeds a yummy snack for the Halloween season, they’re much better for you and your smile than candy you get from trick or treating. For more healthy Halloween treats, visit our videos here and here. The first resource can be used to learn how to make grape cups in cups that can be decorated to look like Frankenstein, owl rice cakes with healthy add ons like apples, bananas, and blueberries as features, and orange cuties with fruit cups that can be drawn on to resemble jack-o-lanterns. Use the second resource to make things like Frankenguac, a fun but healthy guacamole dish assembled to look like Frankenstein, witch’s brooms, pretzels and string cheese made to look like brooms, monster teeth, scary sets of teeth made out of apples, peanut butter, and yogurt covered raisins, and finally, strawberry ghosts, which are strawberries dipped in white chocolate and decorated with chocolate chips to appear like a ghost.
With these recipes, make Halloween a healthier time of the year.
Discussion Questions
Why are pumpkin seeds a great source of nutrients for your mouth and body?
What kind of nutrients do pumpkin seeds contain?
How does the video recommend you prepare the pumpkin seeds?
Have you ever cooked the seeds from your Halloween jack-o-lantern? Did you prepare them the same way? What else could you put on them?