Whats the difference between ordinary ground flaxseed and sprouted flax seeds?
Flaxseed has natural enzyme inhibitors to prevent digestion. Eating powder form of regular golden flaxseed will not maximize the nutritional value. In order to overcome the problem created by enzyme inhibitors you can sprout the seed. The sprouted flaxseed has much more bio-available nutrition than just grounded golden flaxseed. Did you know? The purpose of the enzyme inhibitor is to prevent digestion. This is Nature’s way of ensuring that animals, birds and humans distribute the seeds in a form in which they can still germinate. When they eat them, they pass through the body whole, and they are spread around the planet. However, even though we get no nutrients as such from the whole seeds, they do soothe the gut and help with smooth transit of foods through the digestive system, and so even the whole seeds are of benefit to us. To get the nutrients described above though, we need to sprout the seeds, which not only increases the nutritional value, but also releases them. One 15g servi
