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Nutrition Information about flax has been well established. Follow the link to see a complete nutrition analysis.

 

Cooking and Baking stability studies have been over the years to establish flax as a safe product to use to improve your over all health.  Much concern has been expressed over the storage and cooking stability of flax.  Oxidation is one of the main enemies of flax. Follow the link to see a complete list of baking and storage stability studies.

 

Essential Fatty Acid Metabolism - we have constructed a nice diagram of the metabolic pathway of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids. Its helps to better understand the enzyme competition between these two fats.

 

History of Flax and Flax Research - much of what you read about flax seems to always start off with ancient uses for flax and things that happened 5000 years ago. We compiled a more recent history covering the last 300 years including flax, lignans, omega-3 and omega-6’s. Its interesting to see the evolution.
  

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