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Most of "Chinese" pine nuts these days are from Afghanistan/Pakistan, only shipped to China for packaging. You can easily distinguish them. Long ones are from
by baybal2 5y ago
Most of "Chinese" pine nuts these days are from Afghanistan/Pakistan, only shipped to China for packaging.
You can easily distinguish them. Long ones are from Afghanistan, short from China, Norko, Russia
- trompetenaccoun 5y agohttps://pinenutsyndrome.wordpress.com/pine-nut-species https://pinenutsyndrome.wordpress.com/pine-nut-species Interestingly I've never seen type A sold in China and I've sure eaten my fair share of pine nuts. Seems like these are mostly exported to other countries then? Would be hilarious if the bad ones are sold off to foreigners.
- baybal2 5y ago> Would be hilarious if the bad ones are sold off to foreigners. It is hilarious that it is often the case in the industry. Most Chinese don't believe that's the case.
- trompetenaccoun 5y agoYeah, based on personal anecdotes I suspect this as well. Never seen hard evidence for it though, I'm really curious if anyone's ever studied this.