Are Your Pine Nuts Fit For Human Consumption ? A New Standard For Pine Nuts - Species Specific - Why

I hope to see some of the food sites update their posts regarding "what is a pine nut" based on the new legal standards for pine nuts

. Because this is so important, I have devoted serveral posts to it. Hopefully US consumers will soon see species indentifcation in addition to Country of origin on their labels . There are a lot of sites on the internet , which need to that need to update their "what is a pine nut" information as the result of new laws in China.

Many American pine nut brands that are facilitating PNS by purchasing thecheapest pine nuts available. As noted in earlier posts, if a pine nut causes PNS in the E.U. the health inspectors are directed to pull the product as unfit for human consumption. Of course, this impacts everyone in the distribution chain No one wants to have 20,000 MT of pine nuts returned At this juncture - the unfit pine nuts could be sold in the US markets without fear. If you get PNS in the US, chances are the offending brand will ignore you or send some pat statement like:

"researchers have not found any safety issuesand it seems to affect a relatively small number of people."

While US distributors of pine nuts are not required by law to report species of pine seed (some species are now conidered "unfit" for humans), consumers should be forcing the issue. We absolutely promise that ANY pine nut product offer on www.pinenut.com will be species specific! There is another plus to this that US pine nut distributors have not caught onto. ALL Species of pine nuts taste different - not unlike coffee beans. That is a good thing - companies might actually sell more pine nuts if people understood that each species has its own wonderful unique qualities. We found 4 ways to offer the SAME pine nuts - each process created- a unique wonderful product.

Raw inshell

Cracked

Shelled dehydrated

shelled roasted

We have been working toward rolling out our own American Pine Nut Species samples and while I have product on the web page, we have yet to do any type of major announcement. My fear has been being overwhelmed with orders. The two American species of pine nuts are very, very different. The hard shell Pinus Edulis (also known as pinon, or New Mexico Pinon) has about 4,000 kernels per pound. We needed to develop a different seed process for those kernels as they are so oil rich that they can crumble on impact during sorting, or have bits of shell imbed in the kernel while shelling. This has been acomplished - WAY TO GO GEORGE!! His cleaning system has 3 airflow adjustments so we have a better contol on the seperation process. We are the only web site to ever offer a choice in shelled American Pine Nut spices.

Now that we started shelling and drying pine nuts with George's system, we are comfortable that in future one person, with a very small investement can produce up to 50 lbs of pine nut kernels per day. This would take three dehydrators, so that one could be cleaned out and the day's product run through the seperator. It cost us $45.00 to build the seperator for the hard shell. WOW, WOW, WOW - Our pine nut cracker - when we bring them back on line - will sell for around $400.00, the sorters will run about $400.0 and we will find a good source for the dryers - as of yet, the most valuaable tool on our farm.

by: pinonpenny

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