Nuts & seeds

Nuts & seeds

of or pertaining to walnuts, sunflower seeds, peanuts, pumpkin seeds etc.

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Nuts & seeds

A hard-shelled fruit of some plants having an indehiscent seed. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts in English, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists ...

seed

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A small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after ...

organic seed

Snack foods; Nuts & seeds

Seeds grown without the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, and is not genetically modified.

acorn

Snack foods; Nuts & seeds

Fruit of the oak tree. This nut may be eaten raw, roasted, or baked. It can be chopped to the size of coffee beans, roasted until brown, ground, mixed with a small amount of butter, and prepared as a ...

almond

Snack foods; Nuts & seeds

The kernel of the fruit of the almond tree. Comes in sweet and bitter varieties. Bitter almonds contain traces of lethal "prussic acid" when raw. Processed bitter almonds are used to flavor extracts, ...