Chapter 4: Food Commodities (Pulses And Nuts) Flashcards
What do legumes contain?
-edible seeds
What is contained in a pod?
-edible seeds
What are three edible seeds found in a pod?
3
- beans
- peas
- lentils
What are beans, peas and lentils?
-they are edible seeds found in a pod
What is an example of a pod that can eaten as well as the seeds?
-sugar snap peas
What are pulses?
-pulses are dried, edible seeds of plants which have edible pods and seeds
What are dried, edible seeds of plants which have edible pods and seeds?
-pulses
What are nuts?
-nuts are hard fruits that have only one edible seed enclosed by a shell
What are hard fruits that have only one edible seed enclosed by a shell?
-nuts
Nuts are what fruits that have only one edible seed enclosed by a shell?
-hard fruits
Nuts are hard what that have only one edible seed enclosed by a shell?
-fruits
Nuts are hard fruits that have only what edible seed enclosed by a shell?
-one
Nuts are hard fruits that have only one what seed enclosed by a shell?
-edible
Nuts are hard fruits that have only one edible what enclosed by a shell?
-seed
Nuts are hard fruits that have only one edible seed what by a shell?
-enclosed
Nuts are hard fruits that have only one edible seed enclosed by a what?
-shell
What are nuts available as?
5
- whole
- shelled
- ground
- flaked
- chopped
What are available as whole, shelled, ground, flaked or chopped?
-nuts
What shape are beans?
-oval or kidney shaped
What are oval or kidney shaped?
-beans
What are three examples of beans?
3
- soya
- kidney
- pinto
Soya, kidney and pinto are types of what?
-beans
Soya is a type of what?
-bean
Kidney is a type of what?
-bean
Pinto is a type of what?
-bean
What shape are peas?
-round
What are round shaped?
-peas
What are two examples of peas?
2
- chickpeas
- garden peas
What are chickpeas and garden examples of?
-peas
What shape are lentils?
-they are flat disks
What are flat disks?
-lentils
What are two examples of lentils?
- red lentils
- yellow lentils
Red and yellow are two types of what?
-lentils
What are seven types of nuts
7
- almonds
- pistachio
- pecans
- brazil
- cashew
- hazelnuts
- macadamia