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Cooking with squash is easy to do, especially in pastas, soups, and more. Look for these different types of winter and summer squash varieties.
8. Sweet Dumpling Squash. Looks like: Like its name implies, sweet dumpling squash is small, squat and compact. It has a pale yellow rind with distinct dark stripes and ridges and yellow-orange flesh.
Cut it open to find pale orange flesh that’s firm and dry, but bakes up tender, fragrant, sweet and nutty, similar to butternut squash, with a subtle maple flavor and aroma.
Cucurbita pepo is a cultivated plant of the genus Cucurbita. It yields varieties of winter squash and pumpkin, but the most widespread varieties belong to the subspecies Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, called summer squash. [3] It has been domesticated in the Americas for thousands of years. [4]
The skin is edible and the seeds of the squash can also be eaten, usually after being toasted first. Acorn squash can be used to prepare squash soup. [7] This squash is not as rich in beta-carotene as other winter squashes, but is a good source of dietary fiber and potassium, as well as smaller amounts of vitamins C and B, magnesium, and manganese.
This list of gourds and squashes provides an alphabetical list of (mostly edible) varieties of the plant genus Cucurbita, commonly called gourds, squashes, pumpkins and zucchinis/courgettes. Common names can differ by location.
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Cucurbita argyrosperma, also called the cushaw squash and silver-seed gourd, is a species of winter squash originally from the south of Mexico. [3] [4] This annual herbaceous plant is cultivated in the Americas for its nutritional value: its flowers, shoots, and fruits are all harvested, but it is cultivated most of all for its seeds, [5] which are used for sauces.