Watermelon Seeds

12 seeds

The traditional watermelon sports a green rind, red flesh, and black seeds, which are slightly bitter under their hard shell. In China, another country serious about its watermelon, the seeds are commonly eaten raw or roasted, but Australians are more accustomed to spitting them out, hence the appeal of a watermelon that dispenses with the black seeds entirely.
But seedless these watermelons are not.
Bite into a so-called seedless watermelon, and you are sure to encounter the other, less-talked-about watermelon seed: white, soft, and translucent. They are the coatings of seeds that haven’t matured. In regular watermelons, about 5% of the seeds are likely to be these undeveloped white ones. But in “seedless” watermelons they predominate, a product of the fruit’s upbringing.
Which is why these very rare and very small black seeds in the water melon are so valuable.