pine nut
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Pine nuts are edible seeds that come from certain species of pine trees. They're valued as a food ingredient, used in cooking and eaten on their own, and have been harvested and consumed by people for centuries.
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Key facts
- Energy
- 2,815 kJ (673 kcal)
- Carbohydrates
- 13.1 g
- Starch
- 5.81 g
- Sugars
- 3.6 g
- Dietary fiber
- 3.7 g
- Fat
- 68.4 g
- Saturated
- 4.9 g
- Monounsaturated
- 18.7 g
- Polyunsaturated
- 34.1 g
- Protein
- 13.7 g
- Vitamins
- Quantity Percentage of Daily Value</span>"}]]}'> %DV
- Vitamin a equiv beta carotene
- 0% 1 μg 0% 17 μg
- Thiamine b 1
- 33% 0.4 mg
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Pine nuts, also called piñón ( Spanish: [piˈɲon]), pinoli (Italian: [piˈnɔːli]), or pignoli, are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus). According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, only 29 species provide edible nuts, while 20 are traded locally or internationally owing to their seed size being large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines, the seeds are also edible but are too small to be of notable value as human food. The biggest exporters of pine nuts are China, Russia, North Korea, and Pakistan.
As pines are gymnosperms, not angiosperms (flowering plants), pine nuts are not "true nuts"; they are not botanical fruits, the seed not being enclosed in an ovary which develops into the fruit, but simply bare seeds—"gymnosperm" meaning literally "naked seed" (from Ancient Greek: γυμνός, romanized: gymnos, lit. 'naked' and σπέρμα, sperma, 'seed'). The similarity of pine nuts to some angiosperm fruits is an example of convergent evolution.