Hungary: Affordable superfood superfoods - the big favorite of the fall-winter months, the pumpkin

We can make countless foods and drinks from the special and extremely healthy super vegetables, and we don’t even have to go too deep in our wallets. But where it grows the most in Hungary, why is it worth consuming, and how much does it cost in the markets and shops? The term pumpkin refers to the pumpkins in Hungary that are mainly consumed fried. Pumpkins are also called winter pumpkins, which is related to their use for food: pumpkins are long-growing crops and are harvested at full maturity (i.e., biological, not non-economic) in the fall, and because of their shelf life, they are also suitable for consumption in the winter. In this sense, therefore, pumpkin is not the name of a single pumpkin species, but a collective name. According to the latest data, pumpkins are grown on about 1,800 hectares in Hungary. In Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county the largest production area is in Nagydobos (nearly 600 hectares), but in Csongrád-Csanád, Bács-Kiskun, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén counties it ...