Many of us often use nuts, including pine nuts , but not everyone knows how pine nuts are useful . Research data indicate that the weight of the pine nut kernel is 43% of the weight of the whole nut. The core content is as follows: fat - 64%, nitrogenous substances - 19%, easily digestible proteins - 90% (which contain up to 2% arginine), carbohydrates - 15%. Due to the quality composition of fat, proteins and other elements, pine nuts are considered very nutritious and healing. It is a useful fat, which is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids (and this is linoleic acid), pine nuts stand out from the general list of all existing nuts.
The amino acid arginine is very useful in the development of an intensively growing organism, so doctors often recommend eating pine nuts for children. Also, they can be eaten by pregnant women and, of course, adolescents, whose body is intensively formed in adolescence. However, you should not give them to children under three years of age, since the body's reaction to nuts can be an allergy. Until you establish the child's tolerance of certain foods, including pine nuts, so as not to provoke allergic reactions, it is better not to show them to the child at all.
Cedar infusion or why pine nuts are useful
Siberian forests are rich in pine nuts, so Siberians skillfully took advantage of this advantage and created a wonderful recipe for pine nut tincture, which they called โCedar Tinctureโ. She gained true popularity and love among the culinary specialists who use it in the preparation of various dishes. However, this infusion is recommended to be used purely for medicinal purposes. Therefore, in each house, this tincture should be in the refrigerator in reserve.
And now we will describe the scheme according to which you can prepare an infusion of pine nuts.
The first step is to free the nuts from the husk so that you end up with clean kernels. Then they must be poured with vodka (half a liter), after pouring it into the bottle. In this form, they should be infused for no more than forty days.
Within a month, this infusion of pine nuts must be drunk according to the following scheme:
- day one - five drops;
- second day - ten drops;
- third day - fifteen drops ...
Thus, with the daily addition of five drops, it is necessary to reach twenty-five. After this, the scheme will change a little and on the first day it is already necessary to drink five grams, on the second day - ten grams, and thus go out with everyday use of tincture to an amount of twenty-five grams.
At the end of the scheme, it is again necessary to return to the use of five drops.
Thus, you will feel for yourself what pine nuts are useful for, getting rid of salt deposits if they bother you. Also, this tincture helps a lot with osteochondrosis and pain in the spine, vitamin deficiency. Even for preventive purposes, it is quite effective for the body.
A few words about how pine nuts are useful, more precisely how they are used in the preparation of lean and vegetable cream, which are often much more useful than milk and even meat.
Dried nuts are cleaned of the film, rubbing in the palms. Then, placing them in a wooden mortar, it is necessary to grind, while adding a little water (hot). The resulting consistency, the gruel must be poured into earthenware (pot) or cast iron and brought to a boil, placed in the oven or (if any) in the oven. In such a simple way, milk and vegetable cream from pine nuts are prepared. Before use, adding boiled water to them, you can get cedar lean milk, but you want to eat cream, do not add water.
Using peanut milk and cream as a remedy offered to us by traditional medicine, you can get rid of breast diseases, consumption. Now you know how pine nuts are useful.