"FOB" writes:

Like nuts are nut trees, apples are apple trees, grapes are grape
vines, mmmmm hmmmmm. A better rule would be to think seeds as high
carb, the rest of the plant is low carb. Seeds, like eggs, contain a
lot of energy to get the new plant started. That's why green peas are
fairly high carb but snow peas, which are picked before the seeds are
fully developed and eat casing and all are lower carb. Root
vegetables are similar, most of them are tubers which will grow if you
plant them so they also store energy. Some seeds break the rule a
bit, nuts are generally higher in fat and protein than carbs, they
store their energy in a different form. Leafy greens are hard
workers, lean and mean.

It'd probably be more accurate to say that seeds are high-*calorie*.
Tree seeds tend to have more of the calories as fat, grasses have
more of the calories as carbs, and legumes have more protein. (There
are surely exceptions.) Off the top of my head, I can't think of any
seeds that aren't packed with calories--of the ones we commonly eat,
anyway.



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