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Pumpkin Skin May Scare Away Germs

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology

Recently scientists have made and extraordinary discovery which is that pumpkin skin in fact scares away infectious diseases in yeast. Scientists took a closer look at the pumpkin skins to observe that Candida albicans (C. albicans) fungus causes vaginal yeast infections, diaper rash in infants, is not toxic to the pumpkin skins this could lead [...]

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