Plain, cooked butternut squash flesh is safe for pets in small amounts. Remove seeds and peel — both are harder to digest. Make sure any canned puree is plain squash, not pie filling with sweeteners or spices.
Butternut squash is a winter squash with tan skin and sweet orange flesh, sold whole, cubed, frozen, spiralized, or as canned puree.
Butternut squash is roasted, steamed, or boiled and used in soups, mash, risotto, pasta sauces, and sheet-pan vegetable mixes. Whole squash stores well through fall and winter.
Recipes often add butter, cream, brown sugar, maple syrup, curry paste, or salt. Butternut squash soup may include cream and alliums. Canned pie filling is a different product than plain squash puree.
