Pumpkin seed oil

This oil is a culinary specialty from what used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now southeastern Austria (Styria), eastern Slovenia (Styria and Prekmurje), Central Transylvania, Orăștie-Cugir region of Romania, north western Croatia (esp.

[1] Pumpkin seed oil has an intense nutty taste and is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids.

The typical Styrian dressing consists of pumpkin seed oil and cider vinegar.

The oil is also used for desserts, giving ordinary vanilla ice cream a nutty taste.

It is considered a delicacy in Austria and Slovenia, and a few drops are added to pumpkin soup and other local dishes.

An analysis of the oil extracted from the seeds of each of twelve cultivars of C. maxima, related, yet different pumpkin species, yielded the following ranges for the percentage of several fatty acids:[9] The sum of myristic and palmitic acid content ranged from 12.8 to 18.7%.