Indeed, nutrition is one of the most important conditions determining the health of the population. Any imbalance in its structure has a negative impact on a person and serves to reduce the quality of life. Over the years of independence, the republic has implemented a set of measures to ensure dynamic growth in the development of the food industry and an increase in the production of domestic food products. Due to this, in recent years the quality of nutrition of the population has significantly improved, and the structure of food consumption has changed. This had a positive impact on the health indicators of citizens. Thus, the average life expectancy of the population of Uzbekistan increased by 6.5 years - from 67 to 73.5 years, for women - to 75.8 years. In our fertile land, the gifts of nature are available to everyone. Some, due to their properties, even replace pharmaceutical drugs and help prevent diseases. One of the popular autumn melon crops is pumpkin. According to seller Raikhona Yuldasheva, who sells melons at the Chorsu market, she sells up to 200 kilograms of pumpkin per day. It is superior to many other products in terms of its content of healing substances. There are a great many varieties of it. Due to its very impressive size, specimens weighing 200 kilograms or more are found; it is considered the queen of vegetables. As Sherzod Juraev, chairman of the council of farmers of the Yukorichirchik district of the Tashkent region, said, the history of growing melons in Uzbekistan goes back more than two thousand years.