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Lots of fear mongers here worrying about eating canned acorn squash instead of pumpkin.
Make the pumpkin pie with the canned 'pumpkin' ... it tastes fine. Great, in fact.
We made two of our pumpkin pies this year with fresh pumpkin (our Halloween pumpkins, in fact), and two with canned puree (not pumpkin pie filling, but canned pumpkin/squash puree). The pies were completely indistinguishable. There is very little detectable difference between pureed pumpkin and other pureed winter squashes of similar color.
by usda guidelines it means minimally processed and no added ingredients (all natural)
naturally raised- means free-range, not in confinement,
humanely harvested means,,, all the animals have names, and granted 3 wishes before they are terminated..
you also have to beware of the term ....organic..
its not always what you think it is..
It means absolutely nothing, especially in light of the fact that things like arsenic, heroin and hemlock are natural.
Just about anyone can stick the word “natural” on a product. The only food label that is both strictly defined and regulated by the government and requires third party certification is USDA organic. Beyond USDA organic, most terms found on food product packaging have no legal definition or regulation. This includes “natural,” as well as foods labeled with phrases like “free-range” and “vegetarian diet.” They imply a lot, but without regulation, they can largely mean anything food producers want them to mean.
With the FDA now tackling the confusing landscape of health and nutrition claims on packaged food, one wildly popular claim they are likely to finally address is the catch-all adjective "natural."
Use of this word has multiplied on food products in recent years as manufacturers seek to capitalize on the vague sense of healthy wholesomeness the word evokes. There's natural Cheetos, natural cookies and natural fake juice, to name a few. In fact, packaged foods labeled natural outsold those marked organic by a 4:1 margin in 2008.
The problem here is that, unlike organic, which hews to a clear set of standards, the FDA has never actually created any regulations for what natural actually means. Surveys show that shoppers read the word to mean "more nutritious" and "healthier," even though that might not necessarily be the case, especially when we're talking about Cheetos.
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