Frequently added to meat, fish, salads and vegetable dishes or baked into bread. In Italian, they are called pinole and are an essential component of Italian pesto sauce. These pine nuts are small and delicate and look very similar to corn kernels, they have a very sight flavour of pine and are full of essential vitamins and minerals. Pinenuts have become extremely popular in recent years and are often used as a tasty healthy addition to salads and dressings including pesto. Pinenuts have the highest protein content of any seed and provide a good source of dietary fibre and are often added to meat, fish and vegetable dishes.