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Pine nuts offer a suffieint daily intake to satisfy an adult organism's daily need for amino acids, as well as such important and often deficient micronutrients as copper, cobalt, manganese and zinc. On the whole pine nuts are very easy to digest, and have a tremendous beneficial effect on the human organism... The nutritional and medicinal properties of pine nuts come largely from their content of fat, protein and other substances. Pine nut fat differs from other fat sources in its high content of polyunsaturate fatty acids, especially linolic acid. Pine nuts contain valuable lipolytic vitamins E and P. E-group vitamins, or tocopherols, are very important and essential in ensuring complete genetic heredity. (The word tocopherol in Greek literally means

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