The use of pine nuts posit the body's defenses, strengthen the immune system, increase sexual potency in men. The content of nuts in the diet of children and adolescents has a positive effect on physical and mental development of the child. The pine nut can - a lot of vitamins.
In pine nuts a lot of essential human micro — and macroelements, such as copper, manganese, magnesium, vanadium, silicon, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iodine, boron, zinc, iron, tin. The nuts have carbohydrates – cellulose, starch, destiny, pentosans, sugars, sucrose, glucose, fructose.
Contained in pine nuts lecithin nourishes the brain cells. The water content in the nuclei of cedar nuts after harvest is around 35 %, after drying is about 10 %. Even in the shell are all the same nutrients, but in smaller numbers than in the nuclei.
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