> > Answer me this: if chewing gum IS food, does that mean that sunflower seeds are food as well?
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> Yeah, that was weird thing #4,368 in America: they sold sunflower seeds as snack food. I mean, seriously, do people eat those? Why?
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> winter"Chocolate-coated sunflower seeds, I could understand..."mute

I eat sunflower seeds. They're good. What I don't understand is the sunflower seeds/chewing gum analogy. You don't chew sunflower seeds and then spit them out. You don't even keep them in your mouth being chewed into a huge lump for hours. You just get some seeds and eat them in the normal fashion.

I wouldn't say they're the sort of thing you could eat in bulk, but a spoonful at a time is good, and you can put them in salads or stuff, like Grishny said.