It is a pumpkin bred to have naked seeds especially for eating the seeds not the meat. although the meat is still edible. If you have ever tried to "peel" pumpkin or squash seeds, you know what kind of a task that can be. Here is one example, although they appear to be sold out of the hybrids at this time: Hybrid seeds Open pollinated seeds
I bought my pumpkin seeds from Kroger too and they haven't had them for sometime. I liked them...no outer shells to deal with. I guess that is what you call it. I bought a couple of different brands from Amazon that were pretty good, but they came in such a huge bag. I divided them up into smaller bags and put them in the freezer.
Only an old person has the time to peel pumpkin seeds. Sadly, not the fingernails. I have been thinking back before insanity BI when we sat at the table in the evening and shelled pumpkin seeds and hickory nuts. You could not buy the nuts in the store. the kids had to go out and find them. If you mowed around your trees this was not hard. It was fun and cookies followed. Hubby and I put up black walnuts too. It was a process! But it was something we both actually enjoyed because we could complain loudly about black fingers, squirrels actually coming into the garage and stealing them... I asked hubby why he was dropping the husks on the floor! Ummmm he wasnt't. Ooops got carried away. The should have gone under remenisences but I can't remember how to spell it.
So all this talk made me go buy some pumpkin seeds...but all they had was roasted-in-the-shell. Is there a way to remove the shell, or am I stuck gnawing my way through? At least you can crack sunflower seeds open and the seed is not stuck to the shell. These are not like that.
I've always eaten the shells along with the pumpkin seeds. I've been doing it for decades and haven't died yet, but maybe they'll do me in sometime soon. Sunflower seed shells, I don't eat.
Yeh, I've been reading that as an option. In Shell = 5 grams of fiber plus other nutrients Shelled = 2 grams of fiber and a loss of nutrients I get an auto-suggest on my search that says "How to shell roasted pumpkin seeds," but all of the results tell you how to roast them or how to shell them when they're raw.
This is what I got, raw and already shelled. I buy my raw cocoa from this same brand and like it just fine, and the pumpkin seeds are excellent, too.