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Being rich in vitamin A, watermelon seeds enhance the health of your eyes. They delay the deterioration of eyesight. Vitamin a deficiency is linked to night blindness. Ensuring regular intake of foods rich in this particular vitamin will prevent night blindness. Vitamin A is also essential for diabetics to promote eye health since elevated blood sugar levels can cause eye problems.

“Dill Atlantic Giants are much larger than your traditional pumpkins,” he said. “The potential for massive size is just so much greater than what you would find in a standard variety. You could get the seeds from one of those pumpkins, put them in the best garden in the world, and they’re still unlikely to get over 100 pounds.”

Rathore’s real goal, though, is to see it growing in places like India, where he grew up; places where a lot of people aren’t eating well. “A lot of these countries that do suffer from malnutrition are also cotton producers,” he says. “So I think that those countries may benefit much more from this technology.” China and India are the world’s two top cotton-growing countries.

"Watermelon’s health benefits extend well beyond its juicy flesh," says Theresa Shank, a registered dietitian and owner of Philly Dietitian. "The seeds offer almost the same nutrient density of other more common seeds, like pumpkin and sunflower, and the rind is among the richest edible sources of L-citrulline, an amino acid that has been studied extensively in its relation to heart health."

“I’m using my seeds and seeds from other people… now I’m trying to get it oranger,” he said, noting the pale orange and yellow color of this year’s giant pumpkin.

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Local governments, particularly in remote rural areas, are deciding whether cannabis should be treated like any other crop or banned, out of concern that it could lead to crime and other unwanted social change. Calaveras County, for instance, allowed the cultivation of cannabis, collecting millions of dollars of taxes, only to backtrack. Now growers are suing.

The family’s flower business relied on the San Francisco market, and they lost roughly 25 percent of their customers by the mid-1990s because of the AIDS crisis. California flower growers were also becoming crowded out by foreign competition.

Though you may not be able to eat the hull of a sunflower seed, the kernel itself packs a nutritious punch, providing you with valuable nutrients like vitamin E and magnesium. Bonus: Sunflower seeds are rich in phytosterols, a plant chemical that has been shown to help reduce cholesterol. Sunflower seeds also contain vitamin C, iron, and even fiber, among many other nutrients.

It has now been discovered that the pumpkin seeds, which were usually thrown away, are in fact, loaded with more nutrients than the fruit itself. Pumpkin seeds in packets are readily available in the super markets.