I was eating a bunch of Concord grapes last night picked fresh off my Grandmother’s vine. I usually spit out the seeds, but occasionally I would swallow one. This reminded me of two things.
First, as a kid everyone always said “Spit out the watermelon seeds or a watermelon will grow in your stomach”
Second, a few years ago I watched two co-workers argue after one ate an entire apple, core, stem, seeds, everything…and the other jumped all over him for eating the core and seeds, and continued on to the nutritional value of seeds and how people that don’t eat the core and seeds are wasting food.
So, I’m curious…when you’re eating fruit…do you spit out the seeds, or swallow them? Do seeds have any nutritional value?
Yeah, what’s up with that? Seedless, indeed. “Seeded” ones are easier because you just have the big black ones that are easy to fire out of your mouth like bullets while seedless have the wimpy white ones that end up getting chewed and swallowed.
I have come to a time in my life where the pleasure of eating a fruit with a seed is outweighed by the hassle of dealing with the seed. I now avoid seeded grapes and all cherries entirely. Life is much simpler now.