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bizi · 02-26-2007, 07:20 PM

flax meal
Even the most health conscious consumers have taste buds to please. Flax meal’s crunchy texture and nutty flavor team up with it’s tremendous health benefits to make flax meal almost “too good to be true”.
Stir a serving of flaxmeal into a glass of water or your favorite juice, or add to a recipe. When you add flax meal to your cooking you add a very pleasant taste.
Because of it’s high fat content flax meal can stand in for all of the oil or shortening called for in a recipe. If a recipe calls for 1 tbsp. of oil, use 3 tbsp. of flaxmeal to replace the oil. A 3:1 substitution ratio. When flax meal is used instead of oil, baked goods brown more rapidly.
Vegetarians can substitute a flax meal mixture for eggs in selected recipes. The formula is 1 tbsp flax meal plus 3 tbsp water. Let sit for 1 – 2 minutes and add to recipe as you would an egg.
A delicious hot cereal can be easily made by mixing 2 tbsps of flaxmeal with a half cup boiling water and a little honey. Or flax meal can be added to any hot or cold cereal to make it that much more healthy.

FLAXMEAL- IT REALLY ISN’T “TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!”

Flax meal has been a part of human diets for thousands of years in Asia, Africa and more recently in North America. Plains Products is dedicated to providing the highest quality flax meal products to health conscious people wanting to take advantage of this wonderful food.

Increasingly consumers are seeking “functional foods” like flax meal to promote health benefits as part of their regular diets. Flax meal’s “function” is to add essential omega-3 fatty acids, fiber, lignans, as well as vitamins and minerals.

Flax seeds can be used whole but to utilize the full value of flax it’s much better to process,by milling or grinding the seeds into a meal. Also there are two different varieties of flax, brown and golden. They both add a tremendous health benefit to your diet but the golden variety tastes much better. Plains Products flax meal is a premium ground, golden flax variety.

Got this off a forum:
k, heres a bunch of flax info for you (i have long been a flaxfan):
dont bother with the flax oil at all becuase, like someone above mentioned, you don't get any fiber out of it and flax seeds are chock full of fiber.
i dont think you need buy whole flax seeds either tho - just buy pre-ground flax seeds from someone like bob's red mill (google them) or arrowhead mills or something. any whole foods or health store (or trader joes) will def carry them. you can sprinkle this 'flour' over yogurt or into soups, etc. on salads sometimes it brings an almost-parmesan like quality, too. on anything.
in baking, its awesome. i just exchange about 1/4 of the flour (hopefully whole wheat, right?) with the ground flax with no problems. i do not, however, know what the heat of baking's effect on the nutritional benefits of flax is. be wary. better off going on yogurt, etc. for the health benefits i'd say.
also, if you are really trying to get more omega 3's, you really are better of eating a nice, cold water fish like salmon. the type of omega 3 in cold water fish is, for lack of a more lengthy, boring science conversation, much more readily bioavailable. in short, our bodies have to work the omega 3 from flax a whole lot more and, in the end, gets less actually from it, than from a fish.

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