Can you eat a zucchini seed?

Yes a zucchini does have seeds. If you let a zucchini grow large there will be seeds in it. So technically a zucchini is a fruit. A fruit is the part of the plant that has the seeds.

When used for food, zucchini (courgette) are usually picked when the seeds are still soft and immature. Mature zucchini grow to be as large as a baseball bat and are fibrous inside with developed seeds. The seeds are a similar size and appearance to other squash and pumpkin seeds.

A zucchini with the flowers attached is a sign of a truly fresh and immature fruit, and it is especially sought after for its sweeter flavour.

Zucchini, like all squash, were developed from squashes that originally came from the Americas. The "zucchini" was developed in Italy hence its Italian name. In France it is called courgette and is this name used in other countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands and South Africa.

A zucchini is the fruit of a vegetable plant and by definition has seeds in it. So do the fruit of all squash varieties and other vegetables and plants. That is they way most plants normally propagate. The exception to this is fruits that have been developed by artificial selection to be 'seedless'. Seedless fruits and vegetables (such as watermelon (a member of the squash family) have much less seeds than normal and/or there may under developed seeds. Sometime there no seeds at all. The seedless plants are propagated by other means such as cuttings.