5 Super Health Benefits Of Sunflower Seeds | Black Watermelon Seeds

On December 12th these premium snack bags will debut at the New York Produce Show and will be featured in the New Product Showcase. Bringing together retailers and industry professionals from the northeast, attendees can view chef demonstrations, educational micro-sessions and off-site unique store tours. Setton Farms will be sampling the Simply Protein Blend at booth #237 as well as Dark Chocolate Covered Pistachios and Chipotle BBQ Flavored Pistachios.

Black oil sunflower seeds are the most commonly offered food in the backyard. They also are attractive to the widest variety of birds: cardinals, chickadees, doves, finches, goldfinches, grosbeaks, jays, nuthatches, sparrows, woodpeckers and more.

“For some of us, this is all a big experiment, more than anything,” John said. “It’s a genetic crap shoot."

“If it’s going on this menu, then I have to love eating it,” VanHeulen said. “This is joy, the kind of joy that should surround dining out. No matter what, I’m going the extra mile.”

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Wallace, a retired country club manager who has owned his own organic fertilizer company for the last four years, grew eight giant pumpkins this season, said Thomson. Of that number, four survived, and he chose what he thought was the largest specimen to take to the fair, said Thomson.

Emily von Euw‘s Berry Fruit Tarts With Chia Seeds are all fruit and the crust is nut-free, made from only dried dates, raisins and figs. The filling is banana cream and obviously the topping is simply sliced strawberries and kiwi. There is chia in the banana cream because chia is a rock star. These are absolutely bursting with color, flavor, and life. Go ahead and use whatever fresh fruits you have, and top these off with little goodies like cacao, goji berries, or coconut flakes.

Valuable Antigo foundation seed oats are watered at Schumitsch Seed Inc. (Photo: Courtesy of Travis Dewitz)

So why can’t we eat the shell? The truth is, like many things in nature around us, you can eat it, but you may not like the results. The result of my trying to eat the shells of the sunflower seeds at the ball game that fateful summer? A weekend at home in discomfort. Though I was fortunate to experience only mild stomach pain, eating lots of sunflower seed shells has been known to cause constipation that can result in painful blockage. Additionally, the sharp edges of the shells can cause tears in your esophagus or elsewhere along your digestive tract. Another reason to spit the shells instead of eating them.

I baked a new batch of crispbreads this week, the texture of pebbledash, knobbly with pumpkin seeds and oats, and used them as a base for a coarse paté of grated beetroot and smoked mackerel. We ate them with glasses of prosecco turned rose pink by the addition of pomegranate juice. There were chubby little muffins, too, studded with pine kernels and rosemary and passed round with glasses of hot cider. A practice run for Boxing Day morning.

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