Composition of Foods. D.C. p. 51Canned Pumpkin may be a mixture of pumpkin and winter squash Food Processing December 1998. A pumpkin is really just an orange squash, reports the Chicago Tribune. All pumpkins , melons, squash and gourds are members of the botanical family . The genus cucurbita , including pumpkins, squash and gourds, is one step down.
Pumpkins have seeds in history.
Corvallis Gazette-Times, Corvallis, OR C2. This time of year, I cook with losts of pumpkin. It goes well with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger root, caramelized sugar and dried fruit. It's hard to believe that pumpkins are related to cucumbers, but it's so. Pumpkins were a treasure given b y American Indians, but they weren't popular until Spanish explorers came to America.