# Orange seeds **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 6, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383 "2012-07-06T02:48:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/1 "2012-07-06T02:48:52Z")
This is important. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/2 "2012-07-06T02:52:14Z")
Are you sure this is about orange seeds? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/3 "2012-07-06T02:52:23Z")
Swallow. Orange seeds, watermelon seeds. I _hate_ spitting. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/4 "2012-07-06T03:50:02Z")
5 Orange Pips! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/5 "2012-07-06T03:50:20Z")
Chew, then swallow. I also eat apple seeds, apple cores watermelon seeds, watermelon rinds, lemon seeds, lemon peels, and those dopey sprigs of parsley too. I swallow cherry seeds, although I don’t chew them: too tough. I learned to eat from my dad. He learned to eat from his horse. (BTW, yes, apple seeds are poisonous…but I checked with the local poison information center and they said it’s okay to go ahead and eat them, so long as you don’t make an entire apple-seed milkshake. A couple apples a day won’t add up to enough to harm anyone. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/6 "2012-07-06T04:15:19Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > 5 Orange Pips! I’ve always wondered how you guys eat with those white hoods on! 😉 I spit most fruit seeds. Watermelon are ok to eat. I eat pomegranate seeds and sunflower shells (slowly, or else they build up into an inedible mass). I _can_ eat edamame (soybean) pods and sometimes do, which weirds people out. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/7 "2012-07-06T04:49:13Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Are you sure this is about orange seeds? Yeah, are “orange seeds” the new euphemism around here? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/8 "2012-07-06T22:55:53Z")
Neither. They don’t enter my mouth. Mostly because I don’t generally eat oranges with seeds, but occasionally because I’ve had to pick them out. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/9 "2012-07-06T23:10:37Z")
I chose ‘spit’, but I’m with BigT: they don’t ever get to my lips. I eat sunflower seed shells, though. That’s where all the flavor is! I have ingested a decent amount of lemon seeds since moving here, however. Fresh cut lemons everywhere means I use them in everything and I can’t be arsed to fish the seeds out of my posole. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/10 "2012-07-07T00:09:29Z")
I don’t eat oranges with seeds either, so neither. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/11 "2012-07-07T00:25:50Z")
Seedless. If there are seeds, I pick them out before I eat the orange. Because seeds are icky. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/12 "2012-07-07T01:35:47Z")
It would never even occur to me to eat the seeds, but yeah, the correct answer is 3) navel oranges ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-seeds/627383/13 "2012-07-07T02:14:47Z")
neither. i candle my citrus fruit sections, then remove any seeds before eating the section.