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GENERAL INFORMATION

Name:
Cotton seed
Scientific Name:
Gossypium herbaceum
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Other Information:
The most important cottonseed product in human food is cottonseed oil, which is widely consumed. Cottonseed flour is comsumed as food (especially in Central America) but must be from a cultivar producing low levels of the toxic metabolite gossypol. Partially defatted cooked cottonseed flour is used for colouring foods.
Taxonomic Information:
NEWT http://www.ebi.ac.uk/newt/display?from=null&search=34274

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This record was last modified on 18-Oct-2006
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