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Can you eat artichoke seeds?

ClareabrahamsClareabrahams Posts: 3
in Fruit & veg
Just cleared my allotment and have found seeds in the dried out head of the last year flowers on my artichoke plant. They look like pumpkin seeds, are they ever used in cooking or eaten, does anyone know? I can't find anything by Google. 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    To clarify … is this a Globe  artichoke  Cynara scolymus 
    or a Jerusalem artichoke Helianthus tuberosus ?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ClareabrahamsClareabrahams Posts: 3
    Globe, I should have said. It's the seeds under all the thistle fluff
  • SYinUSASYinUSA Posts: 243
    You can eat anything, once. 

    Good luck!
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    eating and surviving are two different things. 

    https://californiagrown.org/blog/heres-how-to-eat-artichokes/
    No parts of an artichoke are poisonous- but that doesn't mean you should eat the whole thing! When we talked about how to eat artichokes, we mentioned that the leaves and hearts were edible. The hairy inner choke is, however, NOT edible (but is also not poisonous).


  • ClareabrahamsClareabrahams Posts: 3
    No, the choke is inedible, in fact by this time it's a lovely soft fluff that might be used to stuff a pillow. It's definitely the seeds I was interested in. Thank you. 
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