Flax Oil

Like flax oil, hemp oil should be stored
in the refrigerator, used quickly, and never heated.

Unless you get flax oil right from the processor and freeze it
until you start using it, it will already have deteriorated
by the time you buy it.

For dietary purposes flax oil must be pressed
at low temperatures, protected from light, heat, and air,
stored at cool temperatures, and used quickly
once the containers are opened.
Most flax oil is not delicious.
There is great variation in taste among
the brands currently sold in natural food stores,
but the best of them still leaves much to be desired.

Udo Erasmus, author of the classic book,
Fats and Oils (Alive, 1986),
[and Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill,
The Complete Guide to fats, oils,
cholesterol and human health,
Second Printing of Fats and Oils, (Alive,1996).
This book is a fabulous resource on nutrition --ratitor]
says that the problem is freshness.
Unless you get flax oil right from the processor and freeze it
until you start using it, it will already have deteriorated
by the time you buy it.

Flax oil is pressed from the seeds of linum utilitatissimum,
the source of linen fiber and an oil better known
in this country as linseed oil, the base for oil paints.

Linseed oil is usually classified as a "drying oil"
rather than a food oil because its chemical
characteristics cause it to combine readily
with oxygen and become thick and hard.
This tendency to harden on exposure to air
quickly turns linseed oil rancid and unfit to eat,
but makes it useful as a vehicle for pigment on canvas.
(The word "canvas" by the way is a relative of "Cannabis,"
because true canvas is made from hemp fiber.)

Hemp oil contains more EFA's than
flax and actually tastes good.
It is nutty and free from the objectionable
undertones of flax oil.

I have been recommending flax oil as a dietary supplement
to patients with autoimmune disorders, arthritis, and other
inflammatory conditions, but about half
of them cannot tolerate it.
Some say it makes them gag, even when concealed
in salad dressing or mashed into a baked potato.
Flax oil capsules are large and expensive.


Special Thanks
Andrew Weil teaches
at the University of Arizona College of Medicine,
has a private medical practice, and is the author
of Natural Health, Natural Medicine.

From: Natural Health, March/April 1993
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Jerry Garcia {1942-95}
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