According to FARE -- Food Allergy and Research Education -- teal-colored pumpkins are part of a national effort called the "Teal Pumpkin Project" to make Halloween more safe for children with food ...

It’s a beast of a gourd: it looks wider around than an ox and tall as a Great Dane, with a stem as thick as a human thigh, its burnished peach-colored ... a few thousand pumpkins a year, but ...

Pay attention to the color of a pumpkin when picking it out, she said. Lighter-colored pumpkins are softer and easier to carve. Darker-colored pumpkins are harder to cut but take more detail better.