1. Pine nuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which can reduce blood lipid and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

2. Pine nuts contain a lot of minerals, such as calcium, iron, phosphorus and potassium. It can provide rich nutrition for body tissues, strengthen bones and muscles and eliminate fatigue, which is of great benefit to the health care of the elderly.

3. Vitamin E in pine nuts is as high as 30%, which has a good effect of softening blood vessels and delaying aging. It is an ideal health food for middle-aged and elderly people, and also an ideal food for moisturizing and beautifying women.

4, pine nuts are rich in fatty oil, which can moisten the intestines and relax the bowels, stop diarrhea without hurting the righteousness, and have a certain therapeutic effect on constipation in the elderly and constipation in children.

Extended data

Main value

Rich in fat, protein, carbohydrates, etc. It is an important Chinese medicine, which can keep healthy, moisturize the skin, prolong life and has high therapeutic value.

Related records

Li Shizhen spoke highly of pine nuts in Ming Dynasty. He wrote in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sea pine nuts, named Silla pine nuts, are sweet and nontoxic;

Indications: joint wind, dizziness, muscular atrophy, whitening, eliminating dampness, moistening five internal organs, expelling wind, resisting cold and qi deficiency, nourishing five internal organs, dispelling wind, moistening stomach and prolonging life. "

Edible, can be used as candy, pastry accessories, but also as a substitute for vegetable oil. Pine nut oil is not only edible, but also an important raw material for dry paint and leather industry. Pine nut skin can be used as dye, activated carbon and so on. In a word, pine nuts are treasures with high economic value in forest areas. China is the main exporting country of pine nuts, and the three northeastern provinces are the main producing areas of Korean pine nuts.

kind

There are two main types of pine nuts in China, namely, northeast pine nuts, Brazil pine nuts and falling pine nuts. Although they are all pine nuts, there are essential differences in nutritional value and shape.

Brazilian pine nuts

Brazil pine nuts have high nutritional and medicinal value, which contains many nutrients necessary for human body. Modern medical research shows that the fat components in pine nuts are unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid and linoleic acid, which have the function of preventing and treating arteriosclerosis.

Regular consumption can prevent cardiovascular diseases caused by high cholesterol. The phosphorus contained in pine nuts is beneficial to the brain and nervous system, and can tonify the five internal organs, tonify deficiency, whiten skin and improve intelligence.

Brazilian pine nuts are pure natural high-quality raw materials produced in Pakistan and Afghanistan. After careful selection, we introduced traditional technology and scientific processing technology. Brazil pine nuts have a special fragrant, loose and crisp taste, and are rich in nutrition. They have been welcomed by consumers for a long time and are high-grade leisure foods.

Northeast pine nuts

Northeast pine nuts are also called northeast red pine nuts. Korean pine is the seed of Korean pine, also known as Korean pine. Plant morphology: Korean pine is an evergreen tree with grayish brown bark and cracked scales.

Branchlets dark brown, densely rusty brown tomentose. Leaves needle-shaped, 5 needles in a bunch, thick and hard, 8-2 cm long. Male inflorescence spherical, dense spike-shaped, red and yellow; Female inflorescences have long stems. The cone is large, oval, 9- 14 cm long and 6-8 cm in diameter.

The seed is ovoid triangle, reddish brown, with a length of1.2-1.8cm and a width of 0.9-1.6cm.. The flowering period is 5 weeks and the fruiting period is 10- 1 1 month.

Pine nuts are the seeds of Korean pine, a precious tree species. Mainly distributed in Changbai Mountain and Xiaoxing 'anling forest areas in northeast China, it is a national first-class endangered species. Wild Korean pine needs to grow for 50 years before it begins to seed, and the maturity period is about two years. Therefore, it is extremely precious.

The inner kernel of Korean pine fruit is mainly produced in Changbai Mountain and Xiaoxing 'anling Mountain. Korean pine grows at 40-45 degrees north latitude, and is slightly produced in North Korea, Russia and a few European countries, but the number is very small.

Made of mature pine cones by mechanical and manual processing. The finished product requires full grains, Bai Jie color, no scars and delicious taste. Composition: Every100g of pine nuts contains protein16.7g, 9.8g of carbohydrate and 63.5g 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 mg of calcium, 236 mg of phosphorus and 6.7 mg of iron.

Efficacy: pine nuts are warm and sweet. Has the effects of nourishing yin, calming wind, moistening lung and intestine. Treat wind arthralgia, dizziness, dry cough, hematemesis, constipation and other diseases. "Rihuazi Materia Medica" contains "dispelling wind and cold, deficiency of qi, tonifying deficiency, moistening skin and nourishing five internal organs."

"Yu Shu Yao Jie" contains "moistening lung to relieve cough, moistening intestine to relieve constipation, switching off arthralgia, nourishing skin and hair." It can be seen that eating pine nuts often can prolong life, beauty beauty. Loose stool due to spleen deficiency, nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency and severe wet phlegm should not eat more. There are also pine nuts of Yunnan pine in Daxinganling. Its volume is smaller than that of Korean pine seeds, but its fragrance is stronger.

system of selection

Pine nuts, also known as "opening pine", are rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid and linoleic acid, and contain essential minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, manganese and potassium. It is also rich in vitamin e.

Pine nuts-choose a little mystery:

First, pick the head: the fruit of big pine nuts has a long growth cycle and is rich in more nutrients.

Second, the picking is full: the full fruit is naturally mature, the taste is tender and smooth, and the fragrance is better.

Third, color selection: pine nut shell is light brown, with bright color, white kernel and white bud core.

References:

Pine nuts. Baidu baike