Because of busy lifestyle and great amount of stress people are dealing with many chronical ailements such as cardiovascular diseases (hypertension, diabetes, heart attack and stroke), malignancies like breast cancer, overwight and obesity that can, per se, be the cause of diabetes and heart disesases. This thesis brings out the significance of pumpkin in human diet as well as its active compounds. Pumpkin contains large amount of carotenoids that are found to be antioxidants which can help in prevention of carcinoma, atherosclerosis and benign prostate hyperplasia. Besides carotenoids, high concentration of tocoferols, fibers and unsaturated fatty acids in pumpkin flesh and seeds eases digestion related problems and lowers blood cholesterol. Also, pumpkin seed oil has hypoglicaemic effect. Abundance of nutritive compounds, essential amino acids, pectines and other fibers makes pumpkin suitable for usage pumpkin in bakery and pastry as well as in production of infant formulas. Low caloric value implies that it is good to include pumpkin in everyday diet because it can help regulating or losing body weight. High amount of mangnesium, selenium, manganese, zinc, phosphorus, potassium and calcium enables enzimes to function normally in metabolic reactions.