How to Eat Sunflower Seeds

To eat sunflower seeds, put sunflower seeds at the tip of your tongue, bite the seeds between your teeth and then release the shell before chewing the seeds. Repeat the cycle. The following article will show you how to eat sunflower seeds skillfully, so that you can both eat seeds and do other jobs.

Table of Contents

Know the technique

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Buy 1 pack of sunflower seeds. You can buy shelled nuts, but eating them with the skin on is more enjoyable. There are many nut flavors to choose from, like chili, pickle or BBQ.

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Put 1 sunflower seed in your mouth. At first you should only try to bite 1 seed to grasp the technique.

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Push the seeds through the corners of the mouth. It is easier to bite the seeds with the teeth at the corner of the mouth than with the front teeth.

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Clamp the bead between the 2 teeth. Use the blade to fix the bead. Place the beads vertically or horizontally depending on your preference. Either way, the edge of the shell needs to be clamped to the teeth.

Use molars (chewing teeth) to break the shell. The molars have indentations to hold the seeds.
Using 2 front teeth to bite seeds will be more difficult; there is a risk that the seeds will slip and hit the gums.

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Use steady and firm force to bite the seeds to crack. The seed pods will easily crack when pressed with great force. Do not bite too hard lest the seeds break.

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Open your mouth to let the seeds fall on your tongue.

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Separate the seeds from the shell. Use tongue and teeth to separate seeds and shells. Distinguish them by feeling the structure of the seeds and shells. The edible seeds are smooth, while the skins are rough.

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Release the shell pieces. After getting used to it, you will bite the seeds apart like 2 shells of a scallop, then the shelling will be neater.

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Eat seeds.

Eat a lot of seeds at once

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Put a handful of seeds in your mouth. Some baseball players often put half a packet of nuts in their mouths at once and chew them during an hour-long game. The more seeds you keep in your mouth, the better.

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Push the beads over one cheek. The particles need to be in the same place so you can control them all.

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Push 1 bead through the corner of the other mouth. Use the blade to push the seeds to prevent the seeds from getting into the other cheek.

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Crack the seeds. Use the tongue to place the seeds between the molars, then bite to crack the seeds.

Advice

If you want to release the bitten seed, release it into a cup or pitcher. However, be polite and avoid disturbing those around you.
Don’t be discouraged if the first attempt fails. Experts in eating sunflower seeds take years of practice to achieve mastery. Be persistent, practice will lead to success.
Do not clamp your tongue when biting the seeds in your mouth.
Grow your own sunflowers so you can harvest your own seeds if you like. So you can add as much salt to the seeds as you want.
Prepare a cup or container to release the seeds while driving.
To avoid disturbing colleagues, try keeping your mouth shut when biting into seeds to minimize the sound as the seed pods split.

Warning

Practicing eating seeds for a long time will cause the tongue to burn due to the amount of salt in the seeds.
Eating too many seeds can cause digestive problems due to the amount of fiber in the seeds.
Chew the seeds carefully to avoid choking.
Check with your doctor to make sure you can consume 110 mg of salt per meal (the amount of salt common in a packet of common sunflower seeds). Check the nutrition facts on the sunflower seed package.

Things you need

Sunflower seed bag
Clever mouth

Steps

Know the technique

Eat a lot of seeds at once

Advice

Warning

Things you need

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