In 15th century a Siberian pine (Pinus sibirica) was wrongly called the Siberian cedar – that is why path breakers of the Siberia has incorrectly accepted these majestic trees as sacred cedars, described in the Old testament. Nevertheless even in the future some sorts of pines were called cedars, thus researchers essentially expanded a circle of "relatives" of a true Lebanese cedar, which fruits are absolutely not eatable. That is why the Siberian pine is called nowadays as the Siberian cedar.

This 40-meter giant tree that can reach age of 500 years, each 5-6 years gives the eatable seeds named cedar nuts. They contain more than 30 extremely useful mineral substances for the human. And by quantity of vitamins they exceed all other nuts in tens times. Possibly, due to these facts people in Siberia call cedar tree as tree-cow. Cedar seeds are very similar to Italian pine fruit - stone pines (Pinus pinea). These trees are twice shorter than any other Siberian tree, but their seeds - nuts- are greater than cedar twice. There is the certificate that nuts of a stone pine were used by Etruscans in the beginning of 1 millennium B.C. Cedar nuts as auxiliary treatment are used in case of beriberi, frustration of digestion and colds. Especially they are useful for older persons and children as contain very important amino acids for an organism. Daily norm is 20-40g.

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