The seeds of these fruits has high source of bioactive constituents which can be used as an eatable oil and can be also be used in the pharmaceutical industries for nutraceutical. It was found to contain high amount of free fatty acids like linoleic, palmitic and stearic with their relative distribution of 43.8%, 33.1%, 13.4% and 7.8% respectively, which represents of about 98 + 0.1% of the total fatty acids amount. The dominant content of tocopherol are the ?-tocopherol where it is being predominant over ? -and ?- tocopherol. The antioxidant activities of the pepo seed oil indicates the good cytoprotective with the modification of few chemical compounds. The usefulness of the pepo seed oil in the management of benign prostrate may therefore become as a good medicinal product in the direct inhibition of the prostrate growth. With the investigation of hypercholesterolemia patients has been found out that it can reduce the level of total and LDL cholesterol levels by 30 â 50%. Pretreatment of the animals by PSO, then administration of the same doses of FEL produce more reduction in the arterial blood pressure ranged from 17.3"1.75 to 40.9"1.35 mmHg.
