According to the investigation and experiment of relevant experts, the nutrition of original melon seeds is much higher than other tastes. In addition to unsaturated fatty acids, original melon seeds also contain a variety of vitamins, folic acid, iron, potassium, zinc and other essential nutrients. Because spiced melon seeds need to add different seasonings in the frying process, the nutritional components of sunflower seeds are destroyed, and some spiced melon seeds use artificial spices, which is harmful to human body.

Although melon seeds are now in power, there is a tendency to steal the name of "melon seeds", but watermelon seeds are "melon seeds are benevolence" in China's traditional style. In A Dream of Red Mansions, the awe-inspiring "Mooncake with melon seeds and pine pulp" (the collective name defined by the imperial court as Wuren Mooncake) uses watermelon seeds. As a famous African native product, "elephant rhinoceros's favorite", the time when watermelon was introduced into China has not been determined. However, after the Tang Dynasty, the timeline of watermelon and melon seeds' trip to China gradually became clear: in the story of trapping in 953 AD, a book was written, which recorded that "when people entered Pingchuan, they began to eat watermelon, which was as big as China wax gourd but sweet", and it was regarded as a specialty of Qidan, "watermelon". In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the special product of Youzhou "melon seeds" first appeared in "The Jade Ring of Taiping". In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Zhennong's book recorded that "(Watermelon) seeds are dried to get kernel, and recommended tea is easy to get"; In the late Ming Dynasty, eating melon seeds became a royal activity, and Ming Shenzong "baked fresh watermelon seeds with a little salt"; In the early Qing Dynasty, the street status of melon seeds was comparable to today's milk tea. There is a saying in Kong's Wind Excerpt that "fried watermelon seeds are wrapped in sleeves and chewed along the way". The French missionary Gubocha, who came to China in the middle of19th century, even said in A Journey to the Chinese Empire: "Even if you go to the most desolate areas, you don't have to worry about not buying watermelon seeds. "