Food: Pine Nuts [edit]

Other Names: 松子 (Chinese), الصنوبر والجوز (Arabic), Pinhão (Portuguese), Pignons (French), Piñones (Spanish) All Translations
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Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus ''Pinus''). About 20 species of pine produce seeds large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines the seeds are also edible, but are too small to be of great value as a human food.Farjon, A. (2005). ''Pines. Drawings and descriptions of the genus Pinus''. Koninklijke Brill ISBN 90-04-13916-8.Lanner, R. M. (1981). ''The Piñon Pine. A Natural and Cultural History''. University of Nevada Press ISBN 0-87417-066-4.Lanner, R. M. (1981). ''Made for Each Other. A Symbiosys of Birds and Pines''. Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-508903-0.

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[edit] About Pine Nuts

In Europe, pine nuts come from the Stone Pine (Pinus pinea), which has been cultivated for its nuts for over 6,000 years, and harvested from wild trees for far longer. The Swiss Pine (Pinus cembra) is also used to a very small extent.
Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus). About 20 species of pine produce seeds large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines the seeds are also edible, but are too small to be of great value as a human food