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Where do bean and peanut seeds store food for the embryo?

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Cluster of bright red seeds emerging from the cone-shaped fruit of a magnolia grandiflora, surrounded by large, glossy green leaves. — Seed Fruit and seeds of the southern magnolia (*Magnolia grandiflora*). The fruit is an aggregate of follicles, and each follicle bears a single red seed.

In bean and peanut seeds, food for the developing embryo is stored within the cotyledons, which are the seed leaves of the embryo.12

Unlike many other plants that rely on endosperm to store nutrients, beans and peanuts absorb their nutritional reserves into the cotyledons as the seed matures. These fleshy cotyledons then provide the necessary nourishment to the seedling during germination.13