These 100% Organic Pumpkin Seeds are the perfect snack to keep to hand for when you are feeling peckish. They are a source of protein, low in sugar and can be added to breakfasts, cooking and desserts.
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The humble pumpkin seed has such legendary historical status that this member of the gourd family is frequently classified in the top three agricultural products first farmed in the United States of America.
The NHS recommends eating pumpkin seeds. It says that in the battle to lower cholesterol and fight heart disease we should try to replace foods high in saturated fats with small amounts of food high in unsaturated fats like pumpkin seeds.
Pumpkins are part of the gourd family known to science as Cucurbita which is native North and South America. Archaeologists have found evidence in Mexico that the plants were being grown and improved there as long as 10,000 years ago, much earlier than maize and beans.