Does canned squash lie?
Although you might think that the canned pumpkin contains a pumpkin-shaped Halloween pumpkin, there’s also a rumor that it may have butternut squash. What’s in there?
Pumpkin is present in the canned pumpkin.
There is pumpkin in canned squash. But there’s also squash. And why? Because pumpkins are all squash.
Cucurbita, the family that includes pumpkins, gourds, and squash, has over 975 different species. There are many varieties of squash, including sweet, golden-fleshed, firm-shelled squash.
Although pumpkins are squashes, any squash with a hard skin can be called a “pumpkin” since there’s no specific definition of a pumpkin.
Some people may believe that canned pumpkin is not made with pumpkin because of a rather lenient description given by the United States Department of Agriculture back in 1957. “Canned squash and pumpkins are the canned products prepared from clean and sound varieties of pumpkins and squashes, which have a golden flesh and firm shell, and are sweet. This is done by washing, stemming cutting, steaming, and reducing the pulp. “
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a decision in 1988 that has impacted how brands label canned pumpkin today. “We have always advised canners we wouldn’t initiate regulatory actions solely due to their use of the designation’ pumpkin,’ or a ‘canned-pumpkin,’ on labels of articles prepared using golden-fleshed sweet squash or mixtures thereof with field pumpkins. “
Because the line between squash and pumpkin is blurred, some squash can be referred to as both. If you say canned pumpkin is made from squash, and your mother says it is made from pumpkin, both of you are 100% correct.
They aren’t tasty at all.
According to Eduardo Vivas of Libby’s Senior Manager of Brand Marketing, “All pumpkins are varieties of squash that belong to the Cucurbitaceae or gourd families.”
Dickinson pumpkins are beige and have a similar outer rind to butternut squash. Their creamy texture makes them a favorite for baking and cooking.
The Dickinson Pumpkin is used to make most canned pumpkins in grocery stores (including Libby’s, Nestle, and others). However, some brands of canned pumpkin mix Dickinson with other winter squashes, such as butternut, Hubbard, or Hubbard.
Libby’s uses Dickinson Pumpkins in their canned pumpkin, labeling them as 100% pumpkin. Vivas explained that “they’re just the right texture and taste.” “
Or squash.
The difference between pumpkin and squash is what you call them.
