Ground Golden Linseed and Bone Health.

[Sunseaandsand]

I am trying to include more seeds into my diet and understand that linseed is beneficial to bone and muscle health.

I thought perhaps members here would be the best people to contact as I do know many of the ladies are going down the natural route.

I would value any information on the best ways of including it in my daily diet and what quantity can be used.

What is the difference between the Golden and the Brown?

Also if anyone in the UK knows of a food place to buy it from.

Many thanks in advance.

[Met00]

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!

[Sunseaandsand in reply to Met00]

Thank you,

You really are getting a good variety into your breakfast.

I too was thinking of adding them to my breakfastn which usually is porridge and a mixture of dried fruit.

Grinding the nuts does sound a much easier way of being able to eat them, as they do tend to make the jaw ache!!

I really do enjoy my breakfast and look forward to trying this out.

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to Sunseaandsand]

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/...

[Sunseaandsand in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

Well thank you.It does sound lovely anyway!!

I like to try the different breads and will be giving it a try.

[Lilact in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

I have been able to get already ground pouches of linseed pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds mix in lidle and aldi which is useful.

[Houseelf]

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.

[Sunseaandsand in reply to Houseelf]

Thank you for your reply.

I think maybe my bones are a bit past diet doing too much to help, but it is all worth trying.

It does have many other health benefits so I am happy to give it a go.

[Lmf48]

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.

[Sunseaandsand in reply to Lmf48]

Thank you for your reply which I find very helpful.

After doing some research I have found the difference to be that the Golden are the healthier choice, but the Brown are much higher in Antioxidants.

We do learn something new each day!!

[UKbehcetsLady]

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!

[Sunseaandsand in reply to UKbehcetsLady]

Thank you for your reply.

I am learning something new all the time.

I did not think about the diverticulosis, and do not have a coffee grinder so have now been looking at the milled linseed.

I will have a look at Detox trading as buying in bulk may be a better option.

I love my porridge and this seems to be yet another thing that can be added to it to give more health benefits.

[karmel]

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.

[Sunseaandsand in reply to karmel]

Thank you Karmel,

You have made a good point really, as sometimes we can rush into buying something new to try only to find out it does not agree with us.

I only wish I had been given the recipe for your cake when I was going through the menopause!!!

[karmel in reply to Sunseaandsand]

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.

[Sunseaandsand in reply to karmel]

Hi Karmel,

Painting 12 has requested your recipe for the cake.

Although I have had notification of your reply for some reason your full reply is not there.

I have tried several times by clicking on see full reply but it is not there.

Perhaps it will right itself later!!

[painting12 in reply to karmel]

Van you please share your cake recipe. Would love to try it.

[fenn]

I use Linwood’s Sprouted Flaxseed. It is readily available and is much easier to digest than unsprouted varieties.

[Sunseaandsand in reply to fenn]

Hi and thank you,

I can find some foods difficult to digest so your reply is very much valued.