name: Cottonseed

flavor_db_name_variants: cottonseed

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Cottonseed

id: 341

name_scientific: Gossypium

description: Cottonseed is the seed of the cotton plant (gossypium). The mature seeds are brown ovoids weighing about a tenth of a gram. By weight, they are 60% cotyledon, 32% coat and 8% embryonic root and shoot. These are 20% protein, 20% oil and 3.5% starch. Fibres grow from the seed coat to form a boll of cotton lint. The boll is a protective fruit and when the plant is grown commercially, it is stripped from the seed by ginning and the lint is then processed into cotton fibre. For every hundred weight of fibre, about one hundred and sixty weight of seeds are produced. The seeds are about 15% of the value of the crop and are pressed to make oil and used as animal feed. About 5% of the seeds are used to sow the next crop.

itis_id: 21709

wikipedia_id: Cottonseed

picture_file_name: 346.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 98408

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:43:26.000Z

legacy_id: 373

food_group: Herbs and Spices

food_subgroup: Oilseed crops

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:36.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:23.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3633

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00341