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Pine nut

Also called pignoli and piñon nut

Pine nuts are seeds that cooks treat as nuts. They can be eaten raw, baked, or used as a garnish, and pair with meat and fish.

  • Plant-based

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Nuts & seeds
Part used
Seed
Family
Pinaceae
Pine nut, whole

Photo: Paul Goyette · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use pine nut

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Garnish
  • Raw

Preparing it

Remove the shell before eating.

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing pine nut

Keeping it

  • Fridge · whole

Nutrition

What 100 g of pine nut holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 16%Fat 64%Carbohydrate 19%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of pine nut, raw
Energy689 kcal
Protein16 g
Fat61 g
Carbohydrate19 g
Fibre3.9 g
Sodium0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of pine nut, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium655 mg
Calcium8.7 mg
Iron5.4 mg
Magnesium206 mg
Zinc5.7 mg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 2346392), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where pine nut is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use pine nut. Here is where they come from.

Origins

  1. The 1930s · United States

    Italian pine nuts became popular on the US East Coast in the early 1930s.

On the table

Dishes made with pine nut

1 of the 2 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Albóndigas de bacalao

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include pine nut.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: pine nut in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: eggs, fish, milk, molluscs, sulphites, crustaceans.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Alcohol
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
nut

Around the world

What pine nut is called

Names in 58 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Piñón · Piñones · Pinones · Piñon

  • French

    pignon de pin · Noix de pin · Pignons de pin

  • Italian

    pinolo

  • Portuguese

    pinhão · Pinolis · Pinhões · Snubar

  • German

    Pinienkern · Pignole · Pinienkerne · Pinoli

  • Dutch

    pijnboompit

  • Greek

    Κουκουνάρι

  • Turkish

    Çam fıstığı

  • Russian

    кедровый орех · кедровые орехи · кедровые орешки · орех кедровый

  • Polish

    orzeszki piniowe · orzechy piniowe · orzeszek piniowy · orzech piniowy

  • Arabic

    حبوب الصنوبر

  • Persian

    دانه کاج · تخم کاج · دانهٔ کاج

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  • Armenian

    մայրու ընկույզ · pine nut · մայրիի ընկույզ

  • Asturian

    Piñón

  • Bashkir

    кедр сәтләүеге

  • Basque

    Pinazi

  • Belarusian

    кедравы арэх · кедравыя арэхі · арэх кедравы

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    кедравы арэх

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    pinhão · pinoli

  • Burmese

    ထင်းရူးစေ့

  • Cantonese

    松仁

  • Catalan

    pinyó

  • Cebuano

    Pinyon · Pine nut · Pine nuts

  • Chinese

    松子 · 松仁 · 松子仁 · 松仁子

  • Danish

    pinjekerne

  • Egyptian Arabic

    حبوب الصنوبر

  • Esperanto

    Pinsemo · Pinikerno

  • Estonian

    seedermännipähkel · Seedermännipähklid · Seedripähklid · Seedrimänni pähkel

  • Filipino

    Pinyon · Piniyon · Pine nut · Pine nuts

  • Finnish

    pinjansiemen · sembramännyn siemen

  • Galician

    Piñón

  • Hebrew

    צנובר · פיניונס

  • Hungarian

    fenyőmag

  • Indonesian

    kacang pinus

  • Japanese

    松の実

  • Javanese

    Kacang pinus

  • Kazakh

    Самырсын жаңғақтары

  • Korean

    잣

  • Kurdish

    Fistiqên çaman

  • Kurdish (Arabic)

    فستقێن چامان

  • Kurdish (Latin)

    Fistiqên çaman

  • Latin

    Nucleus pineus

  • Lithuanian

    Kedrinės pinijos

  • Macedonian

    пињоли

  • Malay

    kacang pinus

  • Manchu

    ᡥᡡᡵᡳ

  • Mazanderani

    پینهاو

  • Navajo

    Neeshchʼííʼ · Neesh ch'ii' · Neesh chʼiiʼ

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    pinjekjerne · konglekjerner · furukonglekjerner · furukonglekjerne

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    russenøtter

  • Occitan

    Pinhon

  • Pontic

    μομότς

  • Romanian

    sămânță de pin · nucă de pin · mugur de pin

  • Serbian

    пињол

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    пињол

  • Shan

    မၢၵ်ႇပႅၵ်ႇ

  • Simplified Chinese

    松子

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    松子

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    松子

  • Sindhi

    چلغوزو

  • Slovenian

    borov orešek · pinjola

  • Swedish

    pinjenötter

  • Traditional Chinese

    松子

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    松子

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    松子

  • Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)

    بندق

  • Ukrainian

    кедрові горішки

  • Venetian

    Denti de vecia

  • Western Panjabi

    چناٹو

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q212933

Photos

Photo: Paul Goyette · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons