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Main Ingredient: Into the Pumpkin Patch |
Such a happy little friend is the bright orange pumpkin. He makes us think of jack o? lanterns, fairy tale coaches, Ichabod Crane and even the Land of Oz. However, we rather like to eat him instead! Botanically, pumpkin is usually listed along with summer squash, but because it has a harder exterior and more solid flesh than zucchini, yellow, and other varieties of summer squash, it is typically grouped in with winter squash. Unlike winter squash, however, pumpkin is usually available just in the early autumn months; of course, this might have more to do with the market demanding pumpkins in October, when the vast majority of larger pumpkins go for decoration and for jack o? lanterns! Pumpkin, like other orange colored vegetables, is high in beta?carotene. (read more)
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