Key Features:

• Flax Seed- A food & Medicine: It’s a shiny little seed, that has so many nutritious benefits for your body. Once you learn all the amazing ways flaxseed benefits heart health, lowers cholesterol levels, and even plays a part in regulating blood sugar, you’ll be using it every chance you get. Like many seeds, flaxseeds have a slightly mild, nutty flavor so they’re ideal for adding to both sweet and savory foods. You can include the goodness of flax seed in your diet by sprinkling ground flax seeds over your hot or cold breakfast cereal, mixing them into your favorite yogurt, Adding them into cookie, muffin, bread or other batters. As long as it’s ground-up before you eat it, flaxseed is incredibly easy to incorporate into your daily regimen.
• Nutritional Value: Eating two tablespoons of ground flax seed a day will provide about 20 percent to 25 percent of your fiber needs. It gives 3.6 g of plant-based omega-3s, 75 calories, 2.6 grams of protein, 4 grams of carbohydrates (mostly fiber) and 6 grams of fat.
• Health Benefits: This tiny little member of the seed family is actually a powerful superfood with enormous health benefits. Omega-3 essential fatty acids, known as the “good” fats that have been shown to have heart-healthy effects. Research indicates that flaxseed could reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancer, like prostate cancer and breast cancer. Besides that, essential fatty acids keep skin, nails, and hair shiny and healthy. Flaxseed contains both the soluble fiber and insoluble fiber, which can help with regulating blood sugar, promoting weight loss and preventing constipation. Soluble fiber can also help reduce LDL cholesterol levels.
• Aids in Weight Loss: Flaxseeds are rich in proteins. So, when you consume a teaspoon of flaxseeds, along with dietary fiber, the protein content suppresses your appetite. This prevents you from overeating, thereby helping you in losing weight. Flaxseeds are low in starch and sugar; hence they are not high on calories.
• Improves Heart Health& Regulates Blood Sugar Level: Diets rich in flaxseed omega-3s help prevent hardening of the arteries and keep plaque from being deposited in the arteries partly by keeping white blood cells from sticking to the blood vessels’ inner linings and thus prevents the risk of heart diseases. Preliminary research also suggests that daily intake of the lignans in flaxseed may modestly improve blood sugar.