Pistachio trees originated in the regions of Western Asia, including the antshrb to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, about 4,000 years ago. They are trees belong to "bistashia" which extends back to about 80 million years, and includes many types of peanut-producing trees.
And striking in this regard that us interest in the cultivation of pistachios came late. And started the production of this fruit farms in California, specifically, in the mid-1970s. Despite this, after three decades, has become the second State in the production of pistachios at the global level, surpassing this achievement, in short time, a long list of ancient countries grow pistachios, some of which produce 3,500 years ago.
Pistachio trees are of two types: masculine and feminine, you need flower pollination to produce fruit. And the masculine one tree able to pollinate zohoor 12 tree feminised. Pistachio trees give fruits of kernel type (drupe) rind-coated semi-solid of cotyledon. The kernel contains the seed of oval-shaped, and are eaten.
In terms of culinary arts, the pistachio nuts. However, the exact definition of nuts, plant biology, language is confined to seeds or fruits of certain plants. Thus, the nuts are dry fruits containing a single seed.
According to this definition, nuts: walnuts, chestnuts and acorns and nuts. Added metaphor and bean seeds as nuts, really are not as well, such as peanuts (or peanut), which is from beans, seeds, nuts, almonds, cashews, pine nuts, Brazilian and we known as pistachio pistachio, the subject of this article. What brings these beans, seeds, nuts, it is dry, rich in fats and nutrients, and can be eaten immediately after roasting.
Pistachio and misconception about
It was felt, in the past, that eating pistachios, or other nuts, leads to an increase in body weight, high cholesterol, and cause disease in the arteries of the heart and brain.
It has been proven recently that this belief was wrong, and the American Heart Association tips, and other global bodies, explicitly encourages eating these nuts, nutritional methods added to different dishes, covered by people every day.
And pistachio seeds of focused content of nutrients, minerals and vitamins, has numerous health benefits, add to taste delicious. And features, as well as, high content of antioxidants, compared with other types of nuts or seeds. According to the scientific bodies of the Ministry of agriculture, ounce (ounce equivalent to 28 grams) of pistachios contains a quantity higher than is found in a cup of green tea. And other scientific sources say that, compared to other nuts, pistachios contain a quantity of material "they come" antioxidant, exceeds 13 double quantity in the nut, which is in second place after pistachio.
Medically known that eating these antioxidants reduce the likelihood of risk of deterioration in the safety of dark spot on the retina at age. This type of injury is a major cause of blindness in up to the age of 65 years in developed countries.
Pistachios are rich in amino acids, particularly the genre known as "arginine" proteins, as is known, consist of collections of amino acids. As researchers in the Department of nutrition at Harvard University, the nuts are not useful to the heart because of the types of polyunsaturated fats, but the content of type "arginine" of amino acids is another mechanism to protect the arteries of the heart. Pistachios contain good amounts of this amino acid. And its usefulness derives from it is used in the production of nitric oxide, which is an active substance, which is working to expand constricted arteries, so called, sometimes, looseness factor so established the lining of arteries. And rounding, small pink pill, by patients with heart under the self-reported feeling pain, but are of the same species.
Pistachios contains minerals and vitamins beneficial to the heart, such as manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, b vitamins, folate and vitamin B6, niacin, thiamine. Add to all this the pistachios contains no sodium (salt). Here we must be wary of adding to this article (salt) to peanuts, because that raises blood pressure. Must add something to the taste of pistachio, consider adding lemon, or other material that does not contain sodium.
Pistachio and blood cholesterol
Pistachio works to reduce blood cholesterol, protecting arteries, through four mechanisms:
The first mechanism: simpler and understandable. If eating one pistachio, this means eating cholesterol-free food product. ) It is known that cholesterol does not exist at all in any food product plant source, whether pills or legumes or nuts or vegetable oils of various types, but its origin is animal products such as meat, fish, dairy products, margarine, and other marine animals).
The second mechanism: when we are dealing with pistachios, we enter our body fat with quality.
The third mechanism: contain pistachios material "Phyto sidol" help reduce intestinal absorption of the cholesterol eat food. That pistachios, compared with the rest of the seeds or nuts in General, is the highest in containing this chemical very useful natural.
The fourth mechanism: rich pistachios natural dietary fiber plays an important
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