13-10-2004, 04:26 AM
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(Iris Cohen) wrote in
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Natural products which a
1) Impossible, extremely difficult, or extremely expensive to
synthesize
in bulk
2) Hard or inefficient to isolate from natural sources
3) Of commercial interest to pharmaceutical, vitamin, food, or
cosmetic
industries
4) The biosynthetic pathway (genes) has been outlined BRBR
Pinon pine nuts, pignolis. I also second the motion on saffron and
vanilla. Iris,
Er, Iris, pignolis are not the same thing as Pinon nuts the world over.
Here in New Mexico, by state law, if you want to sell something labeled
as a Pinon nut, it must be the seed of either Pinus edulis, P.
monophylla, or P. cembroides. Other pine seeds can be sold as Pine
nuts.
Sean
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