Re: Chia seeds, packed with nutrition, have become a health-food fad

On Apr 30, 1:55 am, "trigonometry1...@xxxxxxxxx |"
<trigonometry1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 27, 9:45 pm, Ron Peterson <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's a good source for the omega 3 fatty acid (ALA). I am not sure
that the other nutrients are significant for the cost or calories
consumed.

Grinding them in a coffee mill helps them assimilate water faster with
less gritiness. I use 1 g of chia per 1 oz of milk when making a
chocolate shake. (the chia acts like a thickener).

http://www.chiaseedandoil.comisconsiderably less expensive.

Download the SR-19 program from the USDA.
Dried chia seeds are in the database.
They have quite a lot of carbs and fatty acids.

It refuse to window refuses to "cut" so I can "paste"
the values.

I found the web site and can cut and paste, but it doesn't make a
table suitable for a newsgroup posting. The web page link doesn't
work right for distributing. The general site address is http://www.nal.usda.gov/
.

Anyway, 100 g of chia seed have:
energy - 490 kcal
protein - 15.62 g
total lipids - 30.75 g
ALA - 17.55 g
carbohydrate - 43.85 g
Fiber - 37.7 g

I would conclude that chia is a good source of ALA and fiber, but
protein needs to be supplemented. 100 g of chia is probably too much
to consume in a day.

--
Ron

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