Pumpkin is an interesting type of food. Many people wonder whether a pumpkin is a fruit or a vegetable. It turns out that everyone is right, because the pumpkin belongs to an interesting group called fruit vegetables.
Pumpkin has both fruit and vegetable qualities. This makes it ideal for combining with other fruit and vegetables.
Pumpkin has a very high content of carotenoids and protects us from cancer cells. Pumpkin also protects us from kidney problems, as well as cardiovascular disease.
Pumpkin is a low-calorie fruit and vegetable and this makes it very suitable for consumption during diets and various regimes. Pumpkin is used even in cosmetics, both raw and processed.
In children's purees we can find it in the form of a fruit in fruit purees and in the form of a vegetable in vegetable purees. It is suitable for feeding babies. Pumpkin puree is one of the first purees that babies are fed after the breastfeeding period.
Due to the high content of carotenoids, the baby may get an orange tint on the face, most often the nose becomes slightly orange, but this is not a cause for concern. This happens if the baby eats pumpkin and carrot purees often. After reducing their amount in the baby's menu, the color of the skin on the face is normalized.
Pumpkin as a vegetable can be combined with tomatoes, peppers, onions, hot peppers, potatoes, red onions and garlic.
Spices such as thyme, salt and black pepper are suitable. You can also season the pumpkin with honey, sugar and cream.
You can bake a pumpkin in the oven with milk, honey or sugar. You can also make a delicious pumpkin pie.
You can prepare different purees in combination with pumpkin. For example, pumpkin puree with carrots, pumpkin with potatoes and chicken, beef or lamb, pumpkin with broccoli, and many other combinations. You can prepare a fruit puree with pumpkin by combining pumpkin with a variety of fruits. For example pumpkin puree, apple and banana or pumpkin, carrot and peach.
With pumpkin you can also cook various cream soups and main dishes. For example, pumpkin stuffed with rice or minced meat and you can also add mushrooms or dried fruit.
Also learn what pumpkin goes with, why we should eat more pumpkin or try one of our tested pumpkin recipes.
