A pumpkin is a cultivar of a squash plant, most commonly of Cucurbita pepo, that is round, with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and deep yellow to orange coloration.

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2. Introduction
 Pumpkin seed, also known as pepita (from the Mexican Spanish:
pepita de calabaza, "little seed of squash"), are the edible seeds of
a pumpkin or certain other cultivars of squash.
 The seeds are typically rather flat and asymmetrically oval, and
light green in color and may have a white outer hull. Some
cultivars are hulless, and are grown only for their seed.
 The seeds are nutrient-rich, with especially high content of
protein, dietary fiber and numerous micronutrients.
 The word can refer either to the hulled kernel or unhulled whole
seed, and most commonly refers to the roasted end product.

3.  Pumpkin seeds are a common ingredient in Mexican
cuisine and are also roasted and served as a snack.
 Marinated and roasted, they are an autumn seasonal
snack in the United States, as well as a commercially
produced and distributed packaged snack, like sunflower
seeds, available year-round.
 Pepitas are known by their Spanish name (usually
shortened), and typically salted and sometimes spiced
after roasting (and today also available as a packaged
product), in Mexico and other Latin American countries,
in the American Southwest, and in speciality and Mexican
food stores.
 The earliest known evidence of the domestication of
Cucurbita dates back 8,000–10,000 years ago, predating
the domestication of other crops such as maize and
common beans in the region by about 4,000 years.

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