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Cucurbita pepo var. styriaca
Also called Field Pumpkin, Ornamental Gourd, Pumpkin, Vegetable Marrow, Zucchini, Cocozelle, Courgette
The Styrian oil pumpkin is a cultivated variety of the common pumpkin, grown mainly for its seeds, which are pressed into dark, nutty pumpkin seed oil. It is grown like other summer squash and pumpkins: warm, sunny, and well fed.
The Styrian oil pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo var. styriaca), also known as the Styrian pumpkin, is a variety of the common pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo pepo) which is cultivated to produce pumpkin seed oil.
The young fruits are dark green, turning yellow-orange upon ripening. They have a mutation resulting in the loss of the lignified seed shell. Approximately 2.5 kg of seed, the equivalent or 30–40 pumpkins, produce 1 liter of pumpkin seed oil. On average, a ripe oil pumpkin weighs between 8 and 10 kilograms.
It is traditionally cultivated industrially in parts of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, in present-day south-eastern Austria (Styria), north-eastern Slovenia (Styria, Prekmurje), central Transylvania and the Orăștie-Cugir region of Romania, north-eastern Croatia (Međimurje), Vojvodina and neighbouring parts of Hungary. In these countries, the use of pumpkin seed oil in the diet is traditional. The Styrian oil pumpkin is also widespread in the far eastern part of Europe (Ukraine) and in Russia, North America, Mexico, India and China.
The oil's fatty acid profile, with polyunsaturated fatty acids constituting approximately 45.6 ± 5%rel, surpasses monounsaturated (35.9 ± 10%rel) and saturated fatty acids (18.5 ± 20%rel). Linoleic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, and stearic acid dominate, collectively accounting for nearly 98% of the fatty acids present. Minimal traces of other fatty acids are also present.
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