I don't know the difference between the two forms or how much to have, but you can get both varieties from Sainsbury's. I grind mixed nuts and seeds and sprinkle them over my breakfast cereal every day. At some point I worked out that a rounded dessertspoonful of mixed seeds and 3 rounded dessertspoonfuls of mixed nuts seemed a reasonable balance, but I've no idea where that information came from, so I can't guarantee it! I use sunflower, pumpkin, sesame and flax seeds, almonds, cashews, brazils, walnuts and pecans. I use proportionally more almonds and pumpkin seeds than other nuts and seeds because they seemed to be considered particularly helpful. I grind the nuts in a food blender, and the seeds in a coffee grinder!
It doesn’t exactly answer your question but I’ve been getting (what I think is) a really lovely Genius Artisan Seeded Cob loaf from the GF section in Tesco. They also make a Fibre Fest which I prefer but I’m not sure whether it’s that the click and collect pickers think all of the loaves are the same or because the Fibre Fest is out of stock and they just substitute the Seeded Cob but that’s what I’ve been getting lately. It’s packed fopull of seeds and is very tasty - more so as it is GF, I’m on a GF diet but I tend not to eat GF bread because it’s not very nice but not now I’ve found this .geniusglutenfree.com/en_au/...
I'm afraid I don't know the difference but ground is more readily absorbed than whole linseeds (which tend to just pass through the system).This is just my experience, but I have been having a serving of ground linseed (flaxseed) daily for the past 10 years and it has not helped my bone health.
I have been using different seeds on my food for a few years now as they generally good for your health. At Sainsbury’s they sell Yay & Yum products who produce milled GoldenFlaxseed seeds, mixed seeds and raspberries and milled mixed nuts. You can get super seed mix from Lidl. I use all these products on different foods such as: yogurts, desserts, soup and smoothies. I sure that they could be incorporated into cake recipes. I haven’t seen the brown ones and don’t know the difference. As to quantities I just use a very good sprinkling of them.
Like others here, I add nuts and seeds to breakfast - usually porridge. I get many from Holland and Barrett, But was also recommended Detox Trading by a nutritionist. They have great quality organic stuff, and I order from there 2-3 times a year. I am wary of linseed because I have diverticulosis, but love the coffee grinder idea!
If you have never had linseed before I would get the smallest bag you can to try, if you have problems with your gut. I find linseed very difficult to digest and when I make seed cake I use higher quantities of other seeds as a substitute for linseed. I use sunflower, pumpkin, sesame, chia and almonds in my cake - the cake I started having when I was peri-menopausal and made the menopause seamless.
I knew so many women - friends and work colleagues that had terrible hot flushes, mood swings etc and they were on HRT too.😗 So stuck to eating my cake and back on it again 🙂 as I hate porridge.
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