Pumpkin Oil

Destination Jeruzalem Slovenia is a rich agricultural area. The nature has gifted us with fertile soil in the vineyards and in the plains, where, precisely because of more than 250 sunny days a year, all crops thrive very well, especially our pumpkins, which we call tikvi.

Pumpkins are a very old cultivated plant. Golica is actually a pumpkin, from which pumpkin oil is extracted today, just like a hundred or more years ago. We need 3 kg of dry pumpkin seeds to squeeze out one liter of valuable thick liquid oil.

The seeds contain a lot of vegetable protein and unsaturated fatty acids, as well as a lot of minerals magnesium, calcium, silicon, selenium and zinc, as well as vitamins A, B1, B2, C, D and E.