How to grind flax seeds (and why you should!)

How to grind flax seeds in 10secs in your kitchen and how to store your ground flax seeds for maximum nutrition. Flax seeds are a great source of the omega 3 ALA so here's how to grind flax seeds quickly and easily.

let’s look at how to grind flax seeds and how to store them to preserve those omega3s

add a few tablespoons in your blender, grind for a few seconds, until it’s a fine powder. how do we store it? No point grinding the seeds so we can get all the nutrients, if they just degrade right after.

Grinding increases the nutrition we can get from the seeds and ground flax seeds are stable at room temperature up to at least 4months. Some people grind their flax seeds fresh every day. We can grind a whole batch.

Or buy it pre-ground. Flax seeds are so rich in omega 3s that 1 tbspoon covers daily needs of ALA, the essential omega3 we need to get from our diet.

So that’s how we grind flax seeds and store them, here’s info on grinding chia seeds and more on omega 3s in general.

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References:
grinding increases bioavailability of flax seeds:
https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/1...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

ground flax seeds stable at room temp up to 4mos:
https://aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...
https://aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

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