The salt on the coating of sunflower seeds should be listed on the package’s label of ingredients even if nobody eats the shells, a federal appeals court has ruled.

“Some days we are called upon to consider such profound issues as eleventh-hour death penalty appeals, catastrophic threats to the environment, intense and existential questions of civil and human rights, and the most complicated, controversial problems in civil, criminal and administrative law,” Judge Barry Silverman wrote. “Today we consider the coating on sunflower seeds.”

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