Buying Canned Pumpkin (Cooking with Pumpkin)

Using Canned Pumpkin (Cooking with Pumpkin) - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. When fall comes around, you are going to start seeing in the grocery stores, several different types of canned pumpkin. You want to find a good, quality canned pumpkin. This one, for instance, is organic pumpkin. It has nothing in it. No salt. No sugar. Nothing added to it. It is pure pureed pumpkin. It is a great idea to use when you are making large quantities of baked good. If you are doing, you know, 100 cupcakes and you need a lot of pumpkin puree, it makes more sense to use a canned, a really good, quality canned pure pumpkin versus having to roast all those pumpkins and puree all those pumpkins so, this is a great idea. You also want to make sure that you are using pumpkin only. Sometimes, you will see on the labels, it will call it a pumpkin pie filling. That is telling you they have already added sugar and spices. You do not want to buy that. If you are going to make a soup, you do not want to have all the extra sugar and spices added into your pumpkin puree. You want to buy a product that just says pumpkin on the label and that is all that is in the can.