I must have been about three when my grandad used to tell me that if I ate the apple core and pips I'd have an apple tree grow out of my stoumach, and I would poop roots and get stuck in the loo! To this day I still won't eat apple cores but I encourage my daughter to eat it for the nutritional value.
A childhood belief about seeds
you weren't the only one
237 of you believed this
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport
- if you eat a seed, the plant will grow in your tummyAnon
- When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.— Maya
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to think that if you ate nuts and seeds that minature trees woudl grow in your stomach.— Gillian
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB