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Received: 1 April 2025

Accepted: 12 June 2025

First Online: 19 June 2025

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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

: The production of oil from pumpkin seeds adds value to agricultural by-products while ensuring the use of a renewable resource, and heat treatment gives edible oilseeds a distinct flavor. The roasting process in oilseeds denatures the proteins in the seed, allowing the oil droplets to coalesce and easily separate the oil from the seed, and increases the oil yield by reducing the affinity of the oil to the solid surface of the seed. The aim of this roasting process is to reveal the phytochemical composition of the seeds.