Stop before you toss! Why you should be eating watermelon seeds and rind | Quality Sunflower Seeds Kernel

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We’re serving it with a seasonal gratin – sprouts and chestnuts, a classic pairing, beefed up with nutty borlotti beans and earthy sage. If you like, you can fry some extra sage leaves as we did to garnish the top: heat a little oil in a pan, add the sage and fry for a minute or so, until they crisp up (they become slightly darker once done). Drain on kitchen paper and scatter over the top of the gratin.

When it comes to watermelons, chances are you’re wasting perfectly good food every time you take a juicy bite. First, the white part of the rind is totally edible. You can chop it up to throw in a stir-fry or pickle the rind for a delicious snack. But the real health surprise comes within the peskiest part of a watermelon—the seeds. Watermelon seeds have almost every nutrient you can name—protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals, says Elizabeth Somer, R.D.N., the author of Eat Your Way to Happiness. "Why toss away something that’s so good for you when they taste great?" she says. "The seeds are rich in vitamin E—one of the nutrients many people don’t get enough of—and phytonutrients, which some tend to be lacking in." Plus, they add visual appeal and crunch to dishes, she points out. (Check out this genius gadget that slices watermelon mess-free.)

What’s striking here is that the idea of breeding cotton for edible cottonseed wasn’t some gee whiz inspiration of the biotech era; this is a project going back 70 years. It’s always worth noting that while our current technologies are producing novel solutions, the problems have been with us for a long time. We’ve been producing cotton with cottonseed packed with fat and protein that we just couldn’t fully utilize going back 7,000 years ago to the Kachi Plain of Balochistan, Pakistan, in the sixth millennium BC.

Other menus are going nuts. Nuts also benefit from a positive health halo, especially when substituting for animal protein. This is the case with the Nacho Bowl at Half-Peach Bakery and Café, a vegan operation in Louisville, Ky.; it is made with raw taco “meat” consisting of spiced almonds, walnuts and sunflower seeds. Nuts also add appealing chew and an upscale image to dishes like Ancient Grains Porridge at trendy Milktooth in Indianapolis, which is topped with toasted pistachios, or the chicken liver tart at Atlanta’s Staplehouse, which is finished with hazelnuts. The chilled spicy noodles at Momofuku Noodle Bars in New York and Las Vegas are enhanced with the addition of Thai basil and candied cashews.

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Very finely shred quarter of the red cabbage. Wash, peel and coarsely grate the beetroot. Peel, halve and finely slice the red onion. Cut the apple into quarter’s, cut out the core, then thinly slice. Put the cabbage, onion, apple, allspice, bay leaf, sugar, vinegar and a scant grating of nutmeg into heavy-based pan, one with a lid.

“All of the nutrition and feed value is in the groat [hulled kernel], and generally the lighter the test weight, the higher the proportion of hull to groat. Neither commercial oat mills nor feed mills want light test weight oats—there is just no value to them,” Scott says.

“I used to grow three of them every year, but now I’ve cut back to one. That’s enough,” he said.

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Kind of like when I buy a lottery ticket. Recently, I picked up two of those small, rotund watermelons. They were nestled together in the same bin, in the same store, and had the same sticker on their rind. The one I gave my mom was sweet and juicy. The one I saved for myself was the worst — mushy and flavourless. It was the kind of watermelon that makes you sad and vow you’ll never buy again. But, when you get a melon like that of my mom’s — sweet, juicy, ripe, and no mush in sight — it’s the stuff of summertime bliss.