Pumpkin Seeds (Cucurbita melo)

Please note this is a nutritional, functional horse food supplement and not veterinary medicine. See Dr Kellon's Horse Sense - 'Nutrition is not 'Alternative' Therapy.

Certified organic dried seeds: Cucurbita melo (Pumpkin) Seeds, Organic Cultivated, Origin Austria

Feed Guide

• 4g/100kg bodyweight per day, thus for an average 500kg horse add 20g daily to feed.
• 1-year shelf-life.
• Top tip- always grind your pumpkin seeds before feeding, otherwise they may come out the other end whole ;-)

Functional Nutritional Value

Constituents: A 10g serving contains approximately: 2.4g Protein, 4.5g Fat, .7g Fibre, 27mg Magnesium, 82mg Potassium, .66mg Zinc, 1 mg Iron

NB. Our range of botanicals are all grown, harvested and dried without the use of agri-chemicals, non-irradiated and GMO free - see our Quality page for Quality Management & Certification Documents. Laboratory tested for identification and compliance to the British and European Pharmacopoeia standards, and are human grade.

Please be aware that if you're purchasing our dried botanicals for human use, our dried range is cut to appropriate sizes for feeding to horses.

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If you're starting to start thinking about testing for tapeworms, nature can help here as Pumpkin Seeds are well known for their Taeniacide and Taeniafuge properties - Taeniacides are phytonutrients that specifically destroy tapeworms, and Taeniafuges expel them.

Apart from this, Pumpkin Seeds are said higher in protein (at 29%) than almost any other nut or seed, and are also an excellent source of Zinc and Vitamin A.

They also have an important anthelmintic property (basically a natural wormer) - an amino acid, cucurbitin , which is regarded as being a very potent and effective teniafuge, said to be one of the most efficient remedies for killing intestinal parasites including tapeworms and roundworms (by causing degenerative changes in the reproductive organs) with its zinc content also helping to expel worms.

NB. Please note we only sell human-grade pumpkin seeds, and not those packaged for planting, which will have been treated with insecticides, fungicides and sometimes-powdered fertilizers.

Safety

• No known safety issues.