Yes, I eat the whole core too. Rule of thumb is you can eat as many seeds as you can the whole fruit. They tried to scare you into making up a story about seeds will make you sick so people would not eat the seeds or the core. In the wild animals forage on fruits and vegetables and they eat the whole fruit, and wild animals don't get cancer. Our pets get cancer because of the processed food we feed them. Veterinarian medicines and treatments are extremely expensive all controlled by the same pharmaceutical companies. Feed your pets seeds also and you'll see how fast these companies go out of business.