Why Can't you eat Watermelon Seeds?!
Why Can't you eat Watermelon Seeds?
The Black Kind
Additional Details3 weeks ago
I mean also the Outside Part
Answers:
3 weeks ago
I mean also the Outside Part
They tend to cause stomach upset since they are so hard and dense. I can't ingest any seeds due to my having diverticulosis which is having weak pouches in the large intestine (may be in part due to constipation and straining) which food such as nuts, seeds, popcorn can get stuck thus possibly causing diverticulitis which is an actual infection and (sorry, eww) the person's actual feces may leak into the bloodstream.
You can they sell dry baked watermelon seeds in stores. They are real tasty.
I'm pretty sure if you're eating watermelon some seeds get to your belly.
They don't taste good.
Some people say you can't because it plants a seed in your stomache but i do it sometimes and nothing happens.
because they r hard
You can eat them. Just not the shells.
That's an old wive's tale that one will grow inside you if you eat them! lol That is so funny!
U can eat them just some people perfer not to because they are big and don't really taste that good
because then watermelons will start to grow in your stomach
Well the reason is that there's always the risk that the seed will take root in your stomach and grow a watermelon inside you. The upside to this is that you'll have a watermelon all to yourself and you can't share it with anybody. The bad part is if that watermelon breaks lose it's going to pass through your intestines and rip you apart when it finally "passes". If I were you I'd stick to grapes. :p
Actually there's no reason. They're perfectly safe to eat as that was the reason they were designed. Just swallow them whole without chewing and they'll pass right through you with no harm done. I've done it countless times and have yet to suffer any ill effects.
One word of caution however, there is the chance (however small it can be) that a watermelon seed could cause appendicitis. The chances of it happening are very small but it is within the realm of possibility.
I am not sure about that but I usually eat the seeds. It is impossible to spit them all out. I don't think there's any health risk by eatting water-melon seeds.
Old wives tales
and fractured phyiology
You will pass them just like corn.
You probably can, but they are like cut glass on the way out sometimes.. and maybe give a belly ache sometimes...