Hemp Oil

jodigrengs
jodigrengs Posts: 21 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I ordered in organic cold pressed hemp oil to try and add healthy choices, but in the mornings when I make a fruit smoothie which can vary from 230-330 calories, than if I add a tablespoon of hemp oil at 125 in calories, that boost my calories count over which in turn less calories for the next meal or a snack. To what and when do I incorporate hemp oil or do I need it?

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Not sure what you mean. Rephrase question, sorry :)
  • MrsSylvie
    MrsSylvie Posts: 301 Member
    am not a fan of hemp oil, for one it tastes like wet rotten grass to me. two, you lose some of the benefits of adding hemp to your diet (there is no protein or fiber in oil) and three you cannot fry anything with it.. its just not worth the calories in its oil version to me, especially when you can use 2tbsp of hemp hearts instead and get 7g of protein & fiber out of it, plus they taste awesome in smoothies.
  • eugenia94102
    eugenia94102 Posts: 126 Member
    Now that you already purchased it - I assume you did it for the Omega3 - why don't you replace your regular salad dressing oil with it (honestly I have no idea of how it tastes, I've used hemp kernels, never used hemp oil). If the taste is too bad you can mix 1:1 with other oil. Just don't heat it.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    edited October 2015
    You do not hemp seed oil but you do need a certain amount of oil/ fat in your diet.
    I eat the hemp hearts in smoothies or omelets.
    Try some of the oil on a salad by making a salad dressing with some garlic or other herbs.
    http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/cook-shrimp-hemp-seed-oil-4847.html
    This shrimp recipe would work because the shrimp is cooked on low and separate from the oil -- hemp oil needs a low temperature.
  • jodigrengs
    jodigrengs Posts: 21 Member
    Thank you everyone. Even though I do take an Omega-3 pill, I was just try to incorporate healthy oil. But I bought the wrong stuff. I need hemp heart like sylvie subjected. I'm also going to look into hemp kernels
  • jodigrengs
    jodigrengs Posts: 21 Member
    I'm in the process of ordering hemp heart when I saw bars, bites and protein powder at Manitoba Harvest. Any good subjections?
  • MrsSylvie
    MrsSylvie Posts: 301 Member
    jodigrengs wrote: »
    I'm in the process of ordering hemp heart when I saw bars, bites and protein powder at Manitoba Harvest. Any good subjections?

    if you have not ordered yet, get the manitoba harvest hemp hearts on amazon if you have prime shipping with amazon. its cheaper there, or at least was last i ordered (2 regular size bags was $21 i think it was), i prefer their organic version (green bag) amd order it by the 5lbs which was $45 cheaper on amazon than on manitoba site the last i ordered..

    never tried their bites & bars, you can easily make your own versions with the hemp hearts though :)
    powder is okay but, the hearts make smoothies thaste soooo much better (assuming you have a ninja nutra/nutribullet/etc).

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