name: Butternut Squash

flavor_db_name_variants: butternut squash

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Butternut squash

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name_scientific: Cucurbita moschata

description: Butternut squash, also known in Australia and New Zealand as butternut pumpkin, is a type of winter squash. It has a sweet, nutty taste similar to that of a pumpkin. It has yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp. When ripe, it turns increasingly deep orange, and becomes sweeter and richer. It grows on a vine. The most popular variety, the Waltham Butternut, originated in Waltham, Massachusetts, where it was developed at the Waltham Experiment Station by Robert E. Young. Dorothy Leggett, widow of Charles Leggett, claims that the Waltham Butternut squash was developed by her husband, Charles Leggett, in Stow, Massachusetts and then subsequently introduced by him to the researchers at the Waltham Field Station.

itis_id: 22370

wikipedia_id: Butternut squash

picture_file_name: 321.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 90782

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:38:33.000Z

legacy_id: 348

food_group: Gourds

food_subgroup: Gourds

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:35.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:22.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3662

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00317