Pumpkins are not only another pretty face — it’s the inside that counts. Pumpkins, a type of winter squash, provide us a wealth of nutrition for relatively few calories and zippo sodium and fat. And, for a sweet vegetable, it’s got an impressively low glycemic load.

Plus, its antioxidants (mostly the orange-colored carotenoids) may help us ward off seasonal colds, and fight heart disease.

But don’t stop at the flesh — the seeds are packed with nutrition and taste great. What to do with them? Here are 5 delicious things you can do with pumpkin seeds, courtesy of Self blogger Jenny Everett.

Back to the pumpkin flesh — besides pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread (not the most diabetes-friendly use of the gourd), what can you do with it? Here are some great ideas from epicurious.com.

Credits to:Nutrition Data: Diabetes

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