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Siberian pine nuts (also Siberian cedar nuts) - the generalized name of edible seeds several plant species of the genus pine (Pinus) (also called Siberian cedar pines).

The most common in Russia, called pine nuts seeds Siberian stone pine ([|Pinus sibirica]). At the same time, the seeds of this inedible cedars.

In the strict scientific sense, they are not nuts, but this name stuck them in cooking.

Average nut weight is 0.23-0.25g. Large nuts are considered 9mm medium - 7-9mm, small - 7mm or less. Composition of cedar nuts Cores nuts are delicious and contain many beneficial nutrients such as cedar oil, nitrogenous substance (essential amino acids), carbohydrates (fructose, sucrose, glucose, starch), trace elements (manganese, copper, zinc, cobalt, iodine) and vitamins A, E, G.

Pine nut kernel contains 55-66% fat, 13,5-20% protein, starch, sugar, and vitamins. Use Pine nut kernel is used in the food and serves as raw material for producing cedar (nut) oil. Meal (cake), which remains after squeezing cedar oil from the kernel is milled and used as a flavoring additive and fortifier trace elements and vitamins in the preparation of confectionery and culinary dishes. Shell of pine nuts is a component of some salves and tinctures.[2 ]

The infusion of shell pine nuts astringent, analgesic, anti-inflammatory effect. In folk medicine, infusion of shell pine nuts drink from deafness, hemorrhoids, neuroses, kidney disease (eg, kidney stones), liver; topically used as a depilatory agent. In the literature there are recommendations for use of the infusion of shell pine nuts externally for grinding "a cold, body aches, rheumatism, gout, joint pains" inside to raise the tone and restore the normal functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. Use broth is recommended for diseases of the blood, as well as for salt resorption in arthritis, deposition of salts, osteochondrosis. Bath with a decoction of shell pine nuts are recommended "for rheumatism, arthritis, gout, lumbago." Lotions and body wraps are recommended for burns and skin diseases, such as herpes, pustular lesions, eczema. Rinses used during inflammation of the mucous membranes of the oral cavity. Broth shell has coloring properties and can be used to give hair a brown color. Pine nuts are widely used since ancient times in folk medicine, and recommendations for their therapeutic use are similar to the recommendations on the use of European and Italian nuts cedar pines, according More Avicenna, Amasiatsi, Biruni, and others. Traditional medicine recommends the use of pounded walnuts with honey at diseases of the gastrointestinal tract: gastritis, bulbita, chronic pancreatitis, gastric and duodenal ulcers; when these same problems and the resulting compression is used cedar oil.[2 ]

In 1786, one of the researchers in Siberia, a German scientist, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, academician Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) wrote about the benefits of nuts in the use of their "chahotnymi people." The husk and bagasse pine seeds with bran used for the preparation of baths. It was thought that they act as a sedative. Toren M. (1996) writes that the pine nuts were treated with the deposition of salts, it also refers to guidance Makarenko that the slurry of chewed kernels of pine nuts in the Yenisei province was used externally as a "blister agent". Pine nuts and is now recommended for enhancing immunity and recuperation, when vitamin deficiency and weight loss. The Siberian cedar seeds use for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, as well as a source of iodine (prophylactic agent for endemic goiter). The local population is popular alcoholic tincture from the seeds of a cedar pine. With its production of crushed seeds with shells filled with alcohol or vodka, so that the liquid level was at 2-3 cm above the milled seed. The mixture was infused for a week, then it is filtered. The infusion take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for rheumatism, gout, arthritis associated with impaired salt metabolism. According to Florina, VM (1903), on the Kamchatka Peninsula one of the most effective means to combat scurvy, along with cedar needles are distributed shale, considered as pine nuts with shells.

Extraction of pine nuts produced using batters. To remove the pine nuts from the cones use special devices called pine cone crackers. The risk of the use of low-quality pine nuts The use of sub-standard (rancid, affected by fungus) treated pine nuts may lead to serious violations of taste sensations. In numerous reports of urban residents of European Russia indicated the presence of a bitter or metallic taste in the mouth 1-2 days after eating pine nuts. Violation of taste takes place without medical assistance from a few days to weeks. Purified nuclei deteriorate much faster crude nuts: it can be stored up to a year at room temperature and low humidity (in a lump - up to several years), and purified - only in the cold

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--Shloc (talk) 20:38, 29 March 2016 (UTC)