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Oilseeds and Culinary Seeds

Gathers the small seeds of herbaceous plants and of fruits that are eaten whole, ground, sprinkled on food or pressed for oil. It includes sesame, sunflower seed, pumpkin seed, flax, chia seed, hemp seed, poppy seed, niger seed, perilla seed, sacha inchi, watermelon seed, safflower seed, nigella seed, cottonseed, grape seed, apricot kernel, egusi and psyllium husk. Within the Nuts and Seeds subcategory it sits beside the groups Common Tree Nuts, Regional and Wild Tree Nuts, Palm and Tropical Seeds, Aquatic and Tuber Nut-Like Foods, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.

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