All the health benefits and the best way to eat them

Pumpkin seeds are tiny, but they have a lot of punch. These small seeds are a good source of magnesium, iron and fiber, and it's time for us to take them seriously for their health benefits.

You may have heard of pumpkin seeds called pepitas and, technically, they are two pumpkin seeds, but there is a fundamental difference between the two. Pépitas, which means "small squash seeds" in Spanish, are shell-less pumpkin seeds and are found only in certain pumpkins, such as pumpkin seeds and Styrian pumpkins.

Pumpkin seeds are found in pumpkins like those you carved on Halloween and are enclosed in a white shell. So, if you hope to have unshelled pumpkin seeds, you will have to break the shells yourself. Fortunately, pepitas and shelled pumpkin seeds are sold in the store, ready for use, so you do not have to do the work yourself.