Flax Seed - Small Seed of Hope Flaxseed can come in many different forms such as Milled Flaxseed, Whole Flaxseed or even Flaxseed Oils. Multitudes of buyers across the world now are regular users of this small seed of hope. Flax seed has a crunchy nutty flavour and is excellent to use on cereals, toast or salad. You can also mix your Flax seed into fruit or vegetable juices. Our Flaxseed is produced in Canada and has been certified by 'Organic Farmers and Growers' Certification UK2. Whole milled Flaxseed grown north of the 53rd parallel contains 38-44% oil and up to 60% of this oil is Linolenic acid (OMEGA 3), which is an essential fatty acid. Milled flaxseed is digestible and whole unmilled flaxseed is not. Dr Rudin found that Omega 3 fatty acids deficiency is the basic cause of major mental illness today. (Biological Psychiatry, Vol 16 No. 9 1981) Flaxseed is higher in Omega 3 than Soy Beans, Pumpkin, Walnuts, Safflower, Sunflower, Corn, Wheat germs. Shoppers in the new millennium may see flaxseed as an important new super food. Stocked inside this lowly seed are two impressive compounds looking more and more like foes of heart attacks, breast and colon cancer, arthritis, severe menstrual cramps even depression. What is mind boggling, is that flaxseed has more of these two compounds - Lignans and alpha - Linolenic acid than any other food. In fact, top flaxseed researcher Stephen Cunnane Head Of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto said - There's no-one who won't benefit from adding flaxseed to his or her diet'..

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