Nutritional value of pine nuts:
1, pine nuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic acid, linoleic acid, etc., can reduce blood lipids, prevent cardiovascular disease.
2, pine nuts contain a large number of minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, etc., can provide rich nutrients to the body's tissues, strong muscles and bones, to eliminate fatigue, the elderly health care has great benefits.
3, pine nuts in vitamin E up to 30%, has a very good softening of blood vessels, the role of aging, is the ideal health food for the elderly, but also ladies moisturizing and beauty of the ideal food;
4, pine nuts are rich in fatty oils, can be moisturizing and laxative diarrhea without harming the right gas, the old man is weak and constipated, children's constipation has a certain dietary role.
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Main value
Rich in fat, protein, carbohydrates and so on. It is an important traditional Chinese medicine, long food fitness heart, moisturize the skin, prolong life, also has a high therapeutic value.
Related records
Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen on the medicinal use of pine nuts had a high evaluation, he wrote in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "sea pine nuts, interpretation of the name of the Silla pine nuts, smell sweet small non-toxic;
The main treatment of bone and joints of the wind, dizziness, to go to the death of the muscle, turn white, dispersal of water gas, moistens the five viscera, the chase of the wind paralysis and cold, the deficiency is less than the gas complementary insufficiency, fat five viscera. Dispersing all winds, wet stomach and intestines, taking it for a long time makes the body lighter and prolongs aging."
Edible, can do candy, pastry accessories, but also can be consumed instead of vegetable oil. Pine nut oil, in addition to edible, or dry paint, leather industry is an important raw material. Pine bark can be manufactured dyes, activated carbon. In short, pine nuts are a treasure of high economic value in the forest area. China is the main country to export pine nuts, the eastern provinces are the main producing areas of red pine nuts.
Types
In the country pine nuts are mainly divided into two kinds, the northeast pine nuts, Brazilian pine nuts and falling pine nuts. Although the same pine nuts, but the nutritional value and shape of the essential difference.
Brazilian pine nuts
Brazilian pine nuts have high nutritional and medicinal value, which includes a variety of essential nutrients. Modern medical research shows that the fat content of pine nuts is oleic acid, linoleic acid and other unsaturated fatty acids, with the prevention and treatment of arteriosclerosis.
Eating it regularly has the function of preventing cardiovascular diseases caused by increased cholesterol. Pine nuts contained in the phosphorus, the brain and nervous system are beneficial, and can complement the five organs, fill the deficiency, white moist skin, benefit intelligence.
Brazilian pine nuts are selected from Pakistan, Afghanistan origin of pure natural high-quality raw materials, after careful selection, the use of traditional technology, the introduction of scientific processing technology. Brazilian pine nuts have a special flavor, pine, crispy taste and rich nutritional composition, long-term popularity among consumers, is a high-grade leisure food.
Northeastern pine nuts
Northeastern pine nuts, also known as the Northeast red pine nuts. Red pine nuts for the pine family plant red pine seeds, also known as sea pine nuts. Plant morphology: red pine is a large evergreen tree, gray-brown bark, scales open.
The branchlets are dark brown, densely covered with rusty brown hairs. Leaves needle-shaped, 5 needles in a bundle, thick hard, 8-2 cm long. Male inflorescences globose, crowded into spikes, reddish yellow; female inflorescences long-stalked. Seed cones large, ovate-oblong 9-14 cm long, 6-8 cm in diameter.
Seeds ovate-triangular, reddish brown, 1.2-1.8 cm long, 0.9-1.6 cm wide. Flowering for 5 weeks, fruiting October-November.
Pine seeds are the seeds of the valuable species of red pine. Mainly distributed in China's northeastern Changbai Mountain and Xiaoxing'anling forest area, is a national endangered species, the wild red pine need to grow 50 years after the beginning of the seed, the maturity period of about two years. Therefore, it is extremely precious.
The inner kernel of the red pine fruit is mainly produced in Changbai Mountain and Xiaoxinganling. Red pine grows at latitude 40-45 degrees, North Korea, Russia, and a few European countries slightly produced, but the number is very small.
By the ripe pine cones through mechanical and manual processing. The finished product requires full of seeds, white color, no traces of injury, the taste of fresh and delicious, composition: per 100 grams of pine nuts contain 16.7 grams of protein, 9.8 grams of carbohydrates, 63.5 grams of fat.
The fat of pine nuts is mostly composed of unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid and linoleic acid. It also contains calcium 78 mg, phosphorus 236 mg, iron 6.7 mg and other ingredients.
Effects: pine nuts are warm and sweet. It has the effect of nourishing yin, extinguishing wind, moisturizing lungs and sliding intestines. Treatment of wind paralysis, dizziness, dry cough, vomiting blood, constipation and other diseases. Rihuazi Materia Medica contains "expel wind paralysis and cold air, deficiency and less gas, make up for insufficiency, moisten the skin, and fertilize the five viscera."
"Jade Rowan medicinal solution" in "moistening the lungs to stop coughing, smooth intestines and laxatives, switching paralysis, Ze skin glorifying hair." Visible eating pine nuts can prolong life, beauty. Where the spleen is weak and loose, kidney loss spermatorrhea, wet phlegm very much should not eat. Another pine seeds of Daxinganling pine. Smaller than the red pine pine seeds, but the flavor is stronger.
Selection method
Pine nuts, also known as "open pine nuts", Donglin pine nuts are rich in oleic acid, linoleic acid and other unsaturated fatty acids, and contains essential minerals, such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, manganese, potassium and so on; and also rich in vitamin E.
Pine nuts ---- selection of the little mystery:
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One, pick the head: large pine nuts fruit growth cycle is long, rich in more nutrients.
Two, pick full: full fruit is naturally ripe, tender taste, better flavor.
Three, pick the color: pine nuts shell light brown, bright, kernel white, bud core white.
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