https://kvalifood.com/tags/winter-squash/ Recent content in Winter-Squash on Kvalifood Hugo en-us Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kvalifood.com/wiki/squash-cucumbers/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://kvalifood.com/wiki/squash-cucumbers/ <h1 id="squash-and-cucumbers">Squash and Cucumbers</h1> <img src="https://kvalifood.com/wiki/squash-cucumbers/squash-cucumbers_hu_f9f57d5ae079ca9.webp" alt="" loading="lazy"> <p>The cucurbit family has made three broad contributions to the kitchen: sweet, moist melons (a fruit story), sweet, starchy winter squashes (harvested fully mature, stored for months), and mild, moist summer squashes and cucumbers (harvested immature, used within weeks). The word &ldquo;squash&rdquo; comes from a Narragansett Indian word meaning &ldquo;a green thing eaten raw.&rdquo; All cucurbits are native to warm climates and suffer chilling injury at refrigerator temperatures.</p>