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Many African mothers feed their babies on pumpkin (Photo: Shutterstock)
Whether we liked it or not, our African mothers weaned us with meals of uji and then pumpkin, or ‘malenge’, in Swahili.
Pumpkin is classified as a fruit because it is developed from the flowering part of a pumpkin vine and contains seeds but in the culinary world, it is referred to as a vegetable because it is more savoury than sweet.
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