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Nutritional Merits of Watermelon Seeds
However, for the merely lazy, eating watermelon seeds is a mixed blessing on the nutritional front. An ounce of dried watermelon seed kernels contains about 3 grams of zinc (or 25 percent of the Recommended Dietary Allowance for a woman under 50), and 2 grams of iron (or 14 percent of the RDA). On the minus side, it also contains 158 calories and more than 13 grams of fat. And there are quite a few dried watermelon seeds in an ounce. Unless you chew them, however, the seeds are quite likely to pass right through your digestive system rather than being broken down and absorbed so the nutritional loss/gain is a wash. |
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