Youâve got the new (and cheap) steak of summer. One reason we really love quick-cooking short ribs: Itâs an extremely forgiving cut of meat thatâs pretty much impossible to overcook (and when you think about how magical they are in three-hour braises, that makes sense).
The tough carbohydrate (polysaccharide) that makes up the cell walls of fungi, and the exoskeletons of insects, crustaceans, and other arthropods. Kingdom in the domain Eukarya that includes molds, mushrooms, and yeasts.
There are unicellular and pluricellular fungi. All fungi are eukaryotes and heterotrophs. Fungi have cells whose cell walls are made of chitin, the same substance that composes the exoskeleton of arthropods. Fungi, like animals, are characterized for their storage of glucose in the form of its polymer glycogen.