Is Pumpkin High in Oxalate?

Is pumpkin high in oxalate? Let's talk about that.

Welcome back to the Kidney Stone Diet podcast, the show about reducing your kidney stone risk and living your best life. I'm your host and fellow student Jeff Sarris.

And I'm Jill Harris, your kidney stone prevention nurse. And I'm on fire today, people! Let's go!

Yeah, you are! So, it's fall.

I'm fired up, baby!

And it's fall! We have all the fall flavors. We have the time of year when pumpkin is everywhere.

So, let's talk about pumpkin, oxalate, kidney stone prevention, all the good stuff for this fall season.

I'm a pumpkin spice kind of girl. I'm a happy fall, y'all, kind of girl. God, I love fall, I just love it!

And pumpkin, I make a wonderful pumpkin scone. It's a free recipe at kidneystonediet.com and I have them a lot. They are dense.

They are good. They are pumpkin-y. They are have cinnamon, pumpkin spice in it.

People, they are so good. So, pumpkin. Let's talk about it.

Shut up, Jill.

Talk about pumpkin. One cup has 8.8 mg of oxalate in there. How do I know this?

How do I know this? Because Jeff made us, at kidneystonediet.com, if you put kidneystonediet.com and write oxalate list, you're going to come up

With a searchable list that you just type in there. Some of you all are printing out the 50-page handout still. It's it's searchable right there.

And we made it We didn't do nothing. Jeff also made an app sort of thing. If you go to kidneystonediet.com and put Go to the help desk at the bottom of the menu, you're going to see

You can put the Harvard searchable oxalate list right on your phone. So, it's going to be right on your home page. I use it everyday.

Boom! Okay, it's very easy. Even Grandma here did it.

So, if you put pumpkin into the oxalate list, you're going to see that Harvard did study it and they say one cup is 8.8 mg of oxalate. You can have it, baby!

So, absolutely, enjoy your pumpkin. Now, here's the thing. Jeff's like, "Jill, I just said to talk about pumpkin." But we all know I'm not going to just talk about pumpkin.

That's not going to happen. Now, people are going to be like, "Okay, I hear you. Happy fall, y'all, and everything.

But there's also cinnamon in everything, Jill, and I know that's higher in oxalate." I'm just going to stick this

Little piece of information in this video because pumpkin and cinnamon go hand-in-hand with fall. And so, a lot of you have stopped using cinnamon because it is higher in oxalate. And guess what?

Harvard did not study Let me make sure. Harvard did not study the spices. It's very annoying.

Cinnamon, hold on.

Yeah, they don't study all a lot of these things, but other lists, and I never say to use other lists, but so many lists say cinnamon's high, so I'm careful with it. So, you could say, "Okay, I'm never going to have cinnamon again." But, again, folks, it's about the portion. So, you can still put I do in my pumpkin scone free recipe at kidneystonediet.com, I use pumpkin spice.

Also,

I have free recipes on how to do your own pumpkin spice, all kinds of little things, okay? Free recipes. And if you're making something like pumpkin spice, it's going to have cinnamon, but it's going to have nutmeg.

It's going to have other spices, so it's not just all cinnamon. But I don't want you to give up cinnamon. Jeff's like, "Why didn't we just do an extra video on cinnamon, Jill?"

Well, because people who like pumpkin and are looking up this video also like cinnamon. You could just count on it. So, I don't want you guys to take away cinnamon.

Use a little bit. A little bit goes a long way. Portion, not perfection!

So, this fall, I want you to enjoy your pumpkin. I want you to enjoy squashes, in general, because squashes are a great, lower calorie food, if you're on a weight loss journey.

They fill you up. They have some great fiber, and they are lower in oxalate. So, delicata squash, one of my favorite ones.

Butternut squash, I make a killer butternut squash soup. That's probably a free recipe on the website. Squashes are cool to have.

Pumpkin, absolutely enjoy it. And again, cinnamon, you can have a little bit, okay? And a little bit goes a long way.

Happy fall, y'all!

This is short, Jeff, but, you know.

No, it's perfect. Well, yeah, I mean, it's it's straight and to the point because, yeah, everyone wants to know because it is that time of season. Now, if you're ready to prevent kidney stones for good, you can work directly with Jill.

There's a select number of spots available every month. It's at kidneystonediet.com. You can work with her one-on-one to make sure your last kidney stone will be your last kidney stone.

I think with that, we'll wrap, and we'll see you next week!

Thanks for educating yourself, everybody. Have a wonderful week. Talk later!