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Pumpkin – interesting fruit

Pumpkin – interesting fruit

Pumpkin – interesting fruit

Pumpkins are fruits that are commonly grown for food. It is used to make breads, soups, and pies. Pumpkins are related to squashes, gourds, cucumbers, and melons.
It is grown throughout North America and Europe. The plant has rough, heart-shaped leaves and large yellow flowers.
Pumpkins usually weigh 4 to 8 kilograms; however, the largest varieties may weigh 34 kilograms and even more. They are picked in autumn and can be stored for a few months in a dry place.
In some countries a carved pumpkin, called a jack-o’-lantern, is a familiar Halloween decoration.

Pumpkin is not only tasty but also very healthy product. Pumpkin flowers are also edible and quite successfully decorate salad or pumpkin pie. In fact, pumpkin is a berry, one of the largest in the world. Its fruits can weigh up to several hundred kilograms.
Mexico is considered homeland of pumpkin. Scientists have found the oldest pumpkin seeds which are 7,000 years old. After the discovery of America, it gradually became widespread in other continents.
There are about 800 different varieties of pumpkin, but only 200 of them are edible.
Pumpkins come in different colors: white, yellow, green, black and also can be striped or spotted.

Eagle made of pumpkin

Eagle made of pumpkin


To make one liter of pumpkin oil you need about 35 pumpkins. The oil helps to reduce cholesterol levels in the body and prevent cardiovascular disease. It is rich in vitamins A, E, and K, selenium and linoleic acid. Pumpkin seeds are especially useful for men. They contain zinc, which is responsible for the male reproductive system.
Every year, from September to November there is a festival dedicated to pumpkins in small German town of Ludwigsburg.
Pumpkins are the real champions. By the way, the biggest pumpkin was grown in Pennsylvania (USA) in 1999. It weighed 513 kg. Also in the United States there was another pumpkin record – a huge baked pumpkin pie with a diameter of 152 cm.

Pumpkin – interesting fruit

Giant pumpkin

Giant pumpkin

Pumpkin cream soup

Pumpkin cream soup

Pumpkin flower

Pumpkin flower

Pumpkin for Halloween

Pumpkin for Halloween

Vitamins in the pumpkin

Vitamins in the pumpkin

Mexico is the birthplace of pumpkin

Mexico is the birthplace of pumpkin

Kinds of pumpkins

Kinds of pumpkins

Beautiful pumpkin

Beautiful pumpkin

Pumpkin in paintings

A. Girv. Still life with pumpkin and red currant

A. Girv. Still life with pumpkin and red currant

A. Vitoshinskaya

A. Vitoshinskaya

Aldo Bahamonde

Aldo Bahamonde

Alena Savchenko

Alena Savchenko

Antonio Guzman Capel

Antonio Guzman Capel

Awesome pumpkin

Awesome pumpkin

Berry Fritz

Berry Fritz

Carl Vilhelm Balsgaard

Carl Vilhelm Balsgaard

Charina Anna

Charina Anna

Claudio Bravo

Claudio Bravo

Claudio Bravo

Claudio Bravo

Claudio Bravo

Claudio Bravo

Claudio Bravo

Claudio Bravo

Daniel Sprick

Daniel Sprick

Daria Kiseleva. Pumpkin, ashberry and garlic

Daria Kiseleva. Pumpkin, ashberry and garlic

Davydov Oleg Viktorovich. Still life

Davydov Oleg Viktorovich. Still life

Elena Bazanova

Elena Bazanova

Elena Shumakova

Elena Shumakova

Ellen Altfest

Ellen Altfest

Fernando Artal

Fernando Artal

Grigoryeva-Klimova Olga. Still Life with Pumpkins

Grigoryeva-Klimova Olga. Still Life with Pumpkins

Guillermo Munoz Vera

Guillermo Munoz Vera

Heide Presse

Heide Presse

Henk Helmantel

Henk Helmantel

Irina Sztukowski. Pumpkin on the window.

Irina Sztukowski. Pumpkin on the window.

Jane Lund

Jane Lund

Janet Rickus

Janet Rickus

Janet Rickus

Janet Rickus

Jiang Zongqiang

Jiang Zongqiang

Johan de Fre

Johan de Fre

Johan de Fre

Johan de Fre

John F. Francis

John F. Francis

John Rizzotto

John Rizzotto

Joke Frima

Joke Frima

Kenne Gregoire

Kenne Gregoire

Kharchuk Nina Nikolaevna

Kharchuk Nina Nikolaevna

Kinds of pumpkins

Kinds of pumpkins

Kit Gentry

Kit Gentry

Kit Gentry

Kit Gentry

Lazarev Igor

Lazarev Igor

Licio Passon

Licio Passon

Luciano Ventrone

Luciano Ventrone

Nikolaev Yury Viktorovich

Nikolaev Yury Viktorovich

Nikolaev Yury Viktorovich

Nikolaev Yury Viktorovich

Plonish Stanislav. Pumpkin and mountain ash

Plonish Stanislav. Pumpkin and mountain ash

Rachel Clearfield

Rachel Clearfield

Roman Urbinsky. Monsters

Roman Urbinsky. Monsters

Schilling Barbara. Fall Harvest.

Schilling Barbara. Fall Harvest.

Shen Wei

Shen Wei

Stanislav Plonish. Still Life with a Pumpkin

Stanislav Plonish. Still Life with a Pumpkin

Tatiana Zhemchuzhnikova

Tatiana Zhemchuzhnikova

Tatyana Klevenskiy

Tatyana Klevenskiy

Tatyana Klevenskiy

Tatyana Klevenskiy

Ted Polomis

Ted Polomis

V. Fedotov. The October pumpkin

V. Fedotov. The October pumpkin

V. Tormosov

V. Tormosov

Valevskaya Valentina. Still life with pepper

Valevskaya Valentina. Still life with pepper

Vladimir Puzankov

Vladimir Puzankov

Yingzhao Liu

Yingzhao Liu

Yu Kamyshny. Earth and sky

Yu Kamyshny. Earth and sky

Yu Kamyshny

Yu Kamyshny