Pumpkin

CucurbitaAlso called Telfairia ocbu 8cidentalis vine,, MbMB, cucurbita and squash

Pumpkin is a winter squash that cooks treat as a vegetable. Its fruit and skin can be baked, boiled, simmered, roasted, or steamed. Pumpkin is also sold canned.

Plant-based
Gluten-free
No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Vegetables
Part used: Fruit, skin
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Cooked most in: Asia, Africa
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 10 in the catalogue
Energy: 26 kcal per 100 g

Photo: George Chernilevsky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use pumpkin

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake
Boil simmer
Roast
Steam

Shopping

Choosing and storing pumpkin

Sold as: Canned

Nutrition

What 100 g of pumpkin holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 11%Fat 1%Carbohydrate 87%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of pumpkin, raw
Energy	26 kcal · 109 kJ
Protein	0.85 g
Fat	0.1 g
of which saturated	0.05 g
Carbohydrate	6.5 g
of which sugars	4.1 g
Fibre	2.3 g
Sodium	0.31 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of pumpkin, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	472 mg
Calcium	16 mg
Iron	0.06 mg
Magnesium	13 mg
Zinc	0.14 mg
Vitamin C	10 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)	426 µg
Folate	31 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 168448, 2727578), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where pumpkin is cooked

10 dishes in the catalogue use pumpkin. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia6
Africa3

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list pumpkin among their ingredients.

Origins

First cultivated: in Americas, -7000/-5500

On the table

Dishes made with pumpkin

7 of the 10 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Tinutuan porridge
Indonesia
Edikang Ikong
Nigeria
Oromo
Kyrgyzstan
Ifisashi
Zambia
Ghapama
Armenia
Kichadi
India
Otong soup
Nigeria

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include pumpkin.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: pumpkin in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin: No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten: None
Alcohol: None
Caffeine: None
Pork: None

Family

Related forms

A kind of: winter squash

Around the world

What pumpkin is called

Names in 154 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
calabaza gigante
French
citrouille
Italian
zucca
Portuguese
abóbora · jerimum
German
Kürbis
Dutch
pompoen · Cucurbita · Pompoenbloem · Pompoenpit
Greek
Κολοκύθα
Turkish
bal kabağı · balkabağı
Russian
тыква
Polish
dynia · Cucurbita · Cucurbita Pepo · Dynia ozdobna
Arabic
يقطين · القرع · قرع عسل · قرعة
Persian
کدو تنبل · کدوتنبل

Show all 154 languages

Afrikaans
Pampoen
Albanian
Cucurbita
Amharic
የሰይጣን ዱባ
ami
Tamorak
Aragonese
Cucurbita
Armenian
Դդում (պտուղ)
Assamese
ৰঙালাউ · মিঠালাউ · ৰঙালাও · ৰাঙা লাউ
Atikamekw
Akosamin
Awadhi
कोंहड़ा
azb
بورانی
Azerbaijani
Qabaq · Sphenantha · Mellouia · Melopepo
Balinese
Tabu
Bangla
মিষ্টিকুমড়া
Banjar
Waluh
Basque
kuia
Belarusian
гарбуз · Cucurbita
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
гарбуз · Cucurbita
Bhojpuri
कोंहड़ा
Brazilian Portuguese
Abóbora
Breton
sitrouilhez
Bulgarian
тиква · Cucurbita
Burmese
ဖရုံသီး
Cantonese
橙皮南瓜 · 南瓜
Catalan
Carabassa · Cucurbita · Carbassera de rabequet · Carbassa
cdo
Gĭng-guă
Cherokee
ᎢᏯ · Cucurbita moschata · Cucurbita mixta · Pumpkin
Chinese
南瓜
Chuvash
Кавăн (апат-çимĕç)
Crimean Tatar (Romania)
kabak · bal-kabagî · bostan
Croatian
tikva
Czech
dýně · Cucurbita · Tykev
Danish
græskar · Cucurbita
Divehi
ބަރަބޯ
Dzongkha
ཀ་ཀུ་རུ
Egyptian Arabic
قرع
eml
Süca · Zucca
Esperanto
kukurbo
Estonian
kõrvits · Cucurbita
Filipino
Kalabasa · Pumpkin
Finnish
kurpitsa
Frafra
Yɔga/yɔgerɛ
Gan Chinese
北瓜
Georgian
გოგრა
Guarani
Jurumu
Gujarati
કોળું
Hakka Chinese
Kîm-kôa
Hausa
Kabushi
Hebrew
דלעת · Cucurbita · דלעות
Hindi
कुम्हड़ा · कुम्हड़े का पौधा · कद्दू
Hungarian
sütőtök
Icelandic
Grasker
Ido
Kukurbito
Igbo
Anyu · Anyu ma ọ bu ugu
Inari Sami
kurpicca
Indonesian
waluh
Irish
puimcín
Japanese
カボチャ · 南瓜仁 · ぼうぶら · ナンガニン
Javanese
Waluh
Kannada
ಕುಂಬಳಕಾಯಿ
Kara-Kalpak
Qabaq
Kashmiri
مشأدؠ ال
kbp
Siitruwii
kge
Tabu
Khmer
ល្ពៅ
Kikuyu
Marenge
Korean
호박
Kurdish
Kundir
Kurdish (Arabic)
کوندر
Kurdish (Latin)
Kundir
Latin
Cucurbita
Latvian
ķirbis
Lithuanian
Moliūgas · Cucurbita · Moliūgai
Low German
Körbs
Luxembourgish
Kalbass · Kürbis · Cucurbita
Macedonian
Тиква
Malay
labu manis · labu
Malay (Arabic)
لابو
Maltese
qargħa ħamra
Manipuri
ꯃꯥꯢꯔꯦꯟ
Marathi
भोपळा
Min Nan Chinese
Kim-koe
Min Nan Chinese (Traditional)
金瓜
Mingrelian
კოპეშია
N’Ko
ߖߋ߭
nah
Ayohtli · Āyohtli · Calabaza · Āyotli
Nepali
फर्सी
Nias
Lawu'ale
Northern Sami
gurbbet
Northern Sotho
Lerotse
Norwegian Bokmål
gresskar · Cucurbita · Graskar
Odia
କଖାରୁ
Ossetic
Нас · Cucurbita
Pampanga
Kulubasa
Pashto
کدو
Picard
Chitroule · Cucurbita pepo
Piedmontese
Cossa
Punjabi
ਹਲਵਾ ਕੱਦੂ
pwn
ljasiak · siak
Quechua
Kalawasa · Cucurbita · Calabaza
Romanian
citrouille · dovleac
Rundi
Umwungu
ryu
チンクヮー
Sanskrit
मधुरकूष्माण्डम्
Santali
ᱠᱚᱦᱚᱸᱰᱟ · ᱠᱚᱱᱰᱷᱟ
Serbian
Dulek
Serbian (Latin)
Tikva
Shan
မၢၵ်ႇပၵ်ႉ · ပၵ်ႉ
Shona
Nhanga
Silesian
Korbol · Bańa
Sindhi
ڪدو
Sinhala
වට්ටක්කා
Skolt Sami
kurpicc
Slovenian
buča · Cucurbita · buče
Somali
Bocor guduud
Southern Sotho
Mokopu
Standard Moroccan Tamazight
ⵜⴰⵅⵙⴰⵢⵜ
Sundanese
Waluh
Swahili
Boga
Swedish
pumpa
Swiss High German
Kürbisse
szy
tamulak
Tachelhit
Taxsayt
Tajik
Каду
Tajik (Latin)
Kadu
Tamil
பூசணி · பூசனிக்காய் · பூசணிக்காய் · பூசனி
Tatar
кабак
Tatar (Cyrillic)
кабак
tay
qabang
Telugu
గుమ్మడి · గుమ్మడి కాయ · కూష్మాండము · గుమ్మడికాయలు
Thai
ฟักทองอเมริกัน
Tibetan
ལྷོ་ཀུབ།
Toki Pona
kili pi loje jelo
Traditional Chinese
南瓜
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
南瓜
Tsonga
Kwembe
Tumbuka
nyungu
Turkmen
Kädi
Ukrainian
гарбуз · Cucurbita
Upper Sorbian
kirbs · banja
Urdu
کدو
Uyghur
كاۋا
Uzbek
Qovoq
Venda
Mafhuri
Venetian
Suca
Veps
tikv
Vietnamese
Bí ngô · Bí đỏ
Welsh
pwmpen
West Flemish
Pompoen
Western Panjabi
حلوا کدو
Wu Chinese
南瓜
Yiddish
קירבעס
Zhuang
namzgva
Zulu
Ikhukhu

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q165308

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