In fact, as the authors of a recent Nutrition Today article noted, mushroomsâ nutrient and culinary characteristics suggest it may be time to re-evaluate food groupings and health benefits in the context of three separate food kingdoms: plants/ botany; animals/zoology and fungi/mycology.
Tate Modern today unveils the latest commission in The Unilever Series, Sunflower Seeds, by the renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The sculptural installation appears at first to be a vast, flat landscape of sunflower seed husks, covering the east end of the Turbine Hall.
Seed. Sunflower seeds are actually individual one-seed fruits called achenes, formed from the inferior ovaries of the disk florets. Used for oils, animal feed and food products, the sunflower seed is the final product of the sunflower's reproductive process.