Types Of Pine Nuts

In China, pine nuts are mainly divided into three kinds, northeast pine nuts, Brazilian pine nuts and water pine nuts. Although it is the same pine nut, there are essential differences in nutritional value and shape.
Brazilian pine nut
Brazilian pine nuts have high nutritional and medicinal value, which includes a variety of essential nutrients for the human body. Modern medical research shows that the fat component of pine nut is oleic acid, linoleic acid and other unsaturated fatty acids, which has the effect of preventing arteriosclerosis. Eating it regularly has the function of preventing cardiovascular disease caused by high cholesterol. The phosphorus contained in pine nuts is beneficial to the brain and nervous system, and can fill the five viscera, fill the deficiency, moisten the skin, and benefit the intelligence.
Brazilian pine nuts are pure natural high-quality raw materials produced in Pakistan and Afghanistan, carefully selected, the use of traditional technology, the introduction of scientific processing technology. Brazilian pine nuts have a special aroma, loose, crisp taste and rich nutrition, long-term popular with consumers, is a high-end leisure food.
Northeast Chinese pine nut
Northeast pine nut is also called northeast red pine nut. Red pine nuts are the seeds of the pinaceae plant Red pine, also known as sea pine nuts. Plant Morphology: Red pine is a large evergreen tree with grayish-brown bark and cracked scales. Branchlets dark brown, dense rusty brown fuzz. The leaves are needle-shaped, 5 needles in a bunch, coarse and hard, 8-2 cm long. Male flower sequence spherical, dense into spikes, reddish yellow; Female flowers have long stalks. The cones are large, ovate oblong 9-14 cm long and 6-8 cm diameter. The seeds are oval triangular, reddish brown, 1.2-1.8 cm long and 0.9-1.6 cm wide. Flowering for 5 weeks, fruit in October - November.
Pine seeds are the seeds of the precious red pine tree. It is mainly distributed in Changbai Mountains and Lesser Hinggan Mountains in northeast China. It is a national Class I endangered species. Wild red pine takes 50 years to grow before it begins to set seeds and mature for about two years. It is therefore extremely valuable.
The inner kernel of red pine fruit is mainly produced in Changbai Mountain and Lesser Hinggan Mountains. Red pine grows between 40 and 45 degrees latitude, North Korea, Russia, and a few countries in Europe are slightly produced, but the amount is very small. It is made from mature pine cones by mechanical and manual processing. The finished product requires the seed kernel to be full, the color is white and clean, the taste is fresh and delicious, the ingredients: each 100 grams of pine kernel contains 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 78 milligrams of calcium, 236 milligrams of phosphorus, and 6.7 milligrams of iron.
Efficacy: Pine nuts warm taste sweet. It has the effects of nourishing Yin, quenching wind, moistening lung and smoothing intestine. Cure wind arthralgia, head dazzle, dryness cough, hematemesis, constipation and other diseases. "Rihua Zi Materia Medica" contains "wind bi cold Qi, deficiency and weak qi, supplement deficiency, moisten the skin, fat five viscera." It can be seen that eating pine nuts can prolong life and beauty. Where the spleen deficiency and loose stool, kidney deficiency and spermatogenesis, wet phlegm or even should not eat more.
There are also pine seeds of pine in the Greater Hinggan Mountains. Smaller than red pine seeds, but more fragrant.
A pine nut in the water
Yunnan pine nuts, also called water pine nuts, mainly produced in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.