What happens if you eat sunflower seed shells?

Sunflower seeds are a high-calorie food, and 1/2 cup of salted sunflower seeds contains about 1 gram of salt. Eating sunflower seed shells can also be harmful to tooth enamel and may result in gum sores. read more

If you choose to eat sunflower seed shells, be sure to chew them carefully and drink plenty of water. Long ago, I clearly recall when a friend ate a whole bunch of them, became constipated, and found it very painful to excrete the large pointy shell fragments. read more

Sunflower seeds are the fruit from — surprise! — sunflowers. The outside shell of the sunflower seed is actually referred to as the hull. When the hull is left intact, the seeds are called in-shell sunflower seeds. When the hull is removed, the seeds themselves are called kernels. read more