White gold of the forests, pine nuts are the most valuable dried fruits, and no wonder why: its production process, harvest and transformation are intricate and time-consuming.
The fruit of the stone pine (in the Mediterranean) is very rich in proteins and has large amounts of omegas 6 and 3, protein, phosphorus, iron, manganese and zinc. Portugal holds about 5% of its world production, a far cry from Asian production, large in quantity but much weaker in quality.
