"Frank" > wrote in
:

> We were at the local pumpkin patch and we decided to buy a couple to
> cook a few recipes with.
>
> The kids decided to buy a white colored pumpkin and one that is gray
> (or gray with a blue/green tinge).
>
> Are these pumpkins OK to eat? Is their flavor different from a run of
> the mill orange pumpkin?
>
> We have never seen the gray variety before.
>

I'm more used to the grey/blue varieties than the orange. I've never seen a
large orange pumpkin (of the sort I see made into jack-o-lanterns on US
shows/websites etc) in the store here. Mini orange ones, yes, like golden
nuggets etc. Butternut pumpkins are a vaguely orangey colour I suppose,
though quite pale. The other pumpkins I see (although they tend to be more
often sold in pieces rather than whole) are Queensland Blue
(bluey/green/grey skin), Jarrahdale (grey skin), Jap (green skin with
yellow flecks). They all have orange flesh of different shades.

So grey skinned pumpkins are definitely edible. Don't know what type you've
got, but this website has photos of Jarrahdale and Queensland Blue on their
site, http://www.ebfarm.com/farmstand_pumpkin-id.html and they also have a
white pumpkin - didn't see if there was any info on it though.


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Rhonda Anderson
Penrith, NSW, Australia