Characteristics of Some Common Legumes
Soybeans and Their Transformations
Nuts and Other Oil-Rich Seeds
Nut Structures and Qualities
The Nutritional Value of Nuts
Nut Flavor
Handling and Storing Nuts
Cooking Nuts
Characteristics of Some Common Nuts
Characteristics of Other Oil-Rich Seeds
Seeds as Food
Seeds are our most durable and concentrated
foods. They’re rugged lifeboats, designed to
carry a plant’s offspring to the shore of an
uncertain future. Tease apart a whole grain, or
bean, or nut, and inside you find a tiny
embryonic shoot. At harvest time that shoot
had entered suspended animation, ready to
survive months of drought or cold while
waiting for the right moment to come back to