What Actually Happens When You Swallow Watermelon Seeds

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Debunking the vine myth: How your body actually digests and benefits from nutritious watermelon seeds.

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Though your childhood brain told you that swallowing a watermelon seed would cause a vine to sprout in your stomach, your body knows how to process these seeds in a highly systematic and beneficial way! No matter whether you are eating seeds by accident or intentionally to reap the nutritional benefits (as when they're roasted), your digestive, cardiovascular, and metabolic systems will respond to the specific physical and nutritional properties inside.