Flax seeds

[anthrax]

What's the taste of freshly ground flax seeds ?

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Gross!

 

[Mavy]

I dont mind em. Just a nutty, wheaty kinda taste. Sorta like the oil if you ever had that.

 

[anthrax]

I dont mind em. Just a nutty, wheaty kinda taste. Sorta like the oil if you ever had that.

A fresh good quality oil actually tastes quite good

sort a nutty taste

Bad (rancid) oil, on the other hand....

 

[gjohnson5]

What's the taste of freshly ground flax seeds ?

Don't listen to tom. I buy the flax seed found in the cooking section of the supermarket and eat it like cereal. much better tasting then flax oil

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Gross.

 

[gjohnson5]

Gross.

That's the way it was originally eaten. Just like nuts.

 

[mrzap]

Ya they aren't bad. Except they don't digest very well.

 

[anthrax]

Except they don't digest very well.

.....if not ground

But if you use a coffee grinder it should be OK, no ?

 

[gjohnson5]

.....if not ground

But if you use a coffee grinder it should be OK, no ?

Well the first part of digestion is "chewing" so A simple answer to this would be to chew more carefully.