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    The Great Pumpkin-Pie Conspiracy

    What counts as a pumpkin? A scientific investigation
    by Rachel Gutman Oct 30, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Emily Jan / The Atlantic

    There’s a decent chance, if I may blow your mind for a moment, that your favorite pumpkin-pie recipe does not contain any actual pumpkin—at least, not the way you think. Scoop that autumnal goop out of a can, even one labeled “100 percent pure pumpkin,” and you just may be living a delicious lie.

    The canned pumpkin you buy in the grocery store often contains little to no amount of the bright-orange, jack-o’-lantern kind of pumpkin. So what, exactly, is in there? And does it

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