5 results for “nut”

1. Plants & Fungi

   Seeds

   nuts add much of the rest. All of them are seeds, selected over ten thousand years

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Flowers and Pollination

   nuts and grains are all, botanically, fruits. Many flowers are also food in themselves: broccoli, cauliflower

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3. Plants & Fungi

   Trees and Forests

   nuts, rubber, medicines and shade. And they are the simplest, oldest and still among the most

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4. Animals

   Insects

   nuts; without them diets would shrink to grains and little else. They recycle dead plants, animals

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5. The Human Body

   Digestion

   A nine-metre tube turns a sandwich into the molecules that build and fuel you, with

   Article · 4 min read