What’s Actually in Your Canned Pumpkin Purée?

What is Pumpkin Purée?

Pumpkin purée is simply cooked and mashed pumpkin. This popular pantry staple adds a orange color and subtle nutty sweetness to pies, muffins, soups, chili, and more. Pumpkin purée can be homemade with whole pumpkin or canned and sold in grocery stores. Canned pumpkin purée that says “100% pumpkin” on the label may also contain one or more types of winter squash, like butternut, Hubbard, Boston Marrow, and Golden Delicious.