🎃The Great Pumpkin Debate: Fruit or Vegetable?

Let's settle this once and for all.

Every fall, it happens like clockwork.

The air cools, the leaves change, and suddenly pumpkins are everywhere.

From your local coffee shop to you driving to the grocery store, and BOOM they're there. But while we're sipping on pumpkin spice lattes and posting aesthetic porch pics, one question quietly divide us all?

Is pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable? 🤔

• 0%Fruit
• 0%Vegetable

It sounds simple, right? Until someone at the dinner table brings it up and a debate ruins the vibe. Let's unpack this mystery once and for all.

Pumpkin is sometimes used interchangeable with squash or winter squah and are among the oldest known humbling plant native to Central America, dating back to over 7,500 years.

Early civilization like the Aztecs and Mayans and other part of the indigenous communities grew pumpkins not for decoration, but for survival. Using the flesh for sauces and stews, the seeds for protein, and the shells as storage. Then it became popular in the 18th century as a New England Thanksgiving staple.

So yeah, before pumpkins became Insta famous, they were the real MVPs or survival food.

And fast forward to now, we're turning them into lattes, pies, bread, and Halloween decor.

When you see a pumkin, your first thought is...

• 0%Ooh, pie!
• 0%Ooh,soup!
• 0%Let's carve it and scare the neighbors!

Okay, You ready? For the answer...

Pumpkin is a fruit.

It grows from the flower of the plant and has seeds, which checks all the "fruit" boxes.

But in the kitchen? Pumpkins are used like vegetables. They're savory, earthy, and more likely to show up in your stew than your smoothie.

So whether you're carving it, sipping it, baking it, or debating it; we hope you're enjoying it.

The pumpking doesn't care what we call it. It's been thriving for thousands of years, and every fall it still steals the spotlight.

Fruit? Vegetable? Who cares. It's a whole vibe.