Pistachio nuts - favorite delicacy, which is used in food for more than two thousand years. Due to the fact that the opened shell of pistachios reminds a smile, they are called "happy nuts." Greenish nuts have not only a unique taste and pleasant aroma, but also a high nutritional value. You can buy pistachios in any supermarket. But, not many know how pistachios grow and what a pistachio tree looks like.
Pistachio Tree - Wednesday
Pistachio is an evergreen deciduous tree growing in countries with warm and arid climate (Asia, Turkey, Italy, Syria, Western Africa). Motherland pistachio is considered to be Iran and Iraq. Here it is called the tree of life, which gives health and youth. Pistachio tree fruits are of particular value and in long-standing were used as a currency. Pistachio prefers rocky and steppe soils rich in calcium, so in the natural medium grows on rocky slopes and cliffs. Trees are growing one by one, less often you can meet a group of pistachio trees.
Appearance features of pistachio tree
- Pistachio is a low multi-rolled tree or shrub with a low and lush crown.
- The trunk of an exotic tree is covered with deep cracks, has an ash-gray color.
- Pistachio has a powerful bunk root system. The roots of the tree go deep to 15 meters. Thanks to such a root structure, pistachio trees can grow even on the coolest slopes and mountains.
- The beginning of the pistachio flowering - April, the fruits ripen and ready to use by September. The appearance of the fruit resembles grape clusters.
- The nuts reaches 3 cm long, are a seed with a solid shell, inside of which is a soft kernel. Their maturation can be easily determined by the cracked top of the shell.
- Pistachio is a long-liver plant, in favorable conditions the tree grows up to 400-500 years.
Types of pistachios
There are about 20 species of pistachios. The most common are the following types:
- True or ordinary;
- Tupoliste (wild pistachio);
- Atlantic;
- Chinese;
- Terrent;
- Mastic.
Useful properties of pistachios
Pistachio is an edible culture rich in vitamins, amino acids, lutein. Eating raw, fried, salty fruits. Pistachios add to confectionery, in some varieties of cheese. From the useful fruits, pistachio oil is produced in medicine, cooking, cosmetology.
- Regular use of pistachios contributes to improved brain activity and immune system. Profitability, vital tone increases, memory improves. Especially nuts are useful to people engaged in mental labor.
- Fruits of pistachio wood improve the work of the heart, contribute to strengthening vessels, reduce tachycardia, reduce cholesterol levels and rejuvenate the entire body.
- Useful nuts for normal liver operation, as they are an environmentally friendly product.
- Pistachios have an expectorant effect.
- Pistachio oil is actively used in cosmetology for wound healing, getting rid of pigment spots, skin cleansing.
- Pistachios have a positive effect on organs of vision.
- Thanks to the content in pistachios of aphrodisiacs, fruits contribute to increasing potency in men.
Pistachio - a long-lived tree, the valuable fruits of which are still successfully used in food. See the pistachio tree in the region with a temperate climate - a rarity, since certain climatic conditions are needed for the growth of an exotic tree. Most often to meet a pistachio tree in the Crimea, in the Caucasus or in Turkey.
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