CHIA SEED OR FLAXSEED???

mymission92
mymission92 Posts: 97
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
What is best? I need to add one to my diet for some fiber whilst i'm doing a protein diet.

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  • babycook
    babycook Posts: 172 Member
    I use both. And hemp hearts. The flaxseed is cheaper. I add it to my steel cut oats and smoothies. The flaxseed should be ground and stored in the fridge. Don't buy it if it's not in the fridge.
  • fadyelsegeiny
    fadyelsegeiny Posts: 1
    As far as weight loss is concerned both will do the job as both are good sources of fats.
  • TyFit08
    TyFit08 Posts: 799 Member
    Both are good but if you are sensitive to tree nuts, than leave chia seeds alone, they have a similar affect
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    I mix the two. :-)
  • mymission92
    mymission92 Posts: 97
    Hmm mixed responses. I may try the flax for now as they're cheaper. I have only found milled flaxseed, are they as good as ground?
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    Hmm mixed responses. I may try the flax for now as they're cheaper. I have only found milled flaxseed, are they as good as ground?

    milled = ground and vice versa.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Hmm mixed responses. I may try the flax for now as they're cheaper. I have only found milled flaxseed, are they as good as ground?

    The fat in ground flaxseed goes rancid quickly- so if you buy it already ground, don't buy too much of it and don't buy it unless it's refrigerated, as someone else said.

    If it's whole flaxseeds, they don't have to be refrigerated, but you can't really digest them so you don't get all the benefits unless its ground. I grind a couple days worth at a time with a coffee grinder and keep the ground flax in the refrigerator in a jar.
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    If you just want added fiber, get this, really cheap when bought in bulk

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  • ASaxe23
    ASaxe23 Posts: 158 Member
    I use both!
  • chandra38
    chandra38 Posts: 110 Member
    Hmm mixed responses. I may try the flax for now as they're cheaper. I have only found milled flaxseed, are they as good as ground?

    The fat in ground flaxseed goes rancid quickly- so if you buy it already ground, don't buy too much of it and don't buy it unless it's refrigerated, as someone else said.

    If it's whole flaxseeds, they don't have to be refrigerated, but you can't really digest them so you don't get all the benefits unless its ground. I grind a couple days worth at a time with a coffee grinder and keep the ground flax in the refrigerator in a jar.

    I did not know any of this. Suppose I should throw out that bag of ground flaxseeds I bought 2 months ago. They were in the dry foods part of the store. :ohwell:
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    I did not know any of this. Suppose I should throw out that bag of ground flaxseeds I bought 2 months ago. They were in the dry foods part of the store. :ohwell:

    I don't want to tell you to throw out your food- taste it- it will taste funky and/or have a bitter aftertaste if its rancid.

    If it were me, I would chuck it- but a package of flaxseed would never last me 2 months either way- I use it every day for breakfast.
  • mymission92
    mymission92 Posts: 97
    If you just want added fiber, get this, really cheap when bought in bulk

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    Thanks for that! I will try that first and see how it goes, as it mainly is for the fiber. Hard to get enough through protein and veg!
  • Esther50
    Esther50 Posts: 252
    Shoot, I just bought the dry flaxseed, not the refrigerated kind. Now I need a bunch of ideas on how to use it so that it doesn't go bad, before I am able to use it all.
    please help me with some suggestions!!
    also, does it add a taste to food? I thought it didn't, but someone today told me that it did.

    thanks everyone up front for your help.
  • Drevious
    Drevious Posts: 69 Member
    Flaxseed all the way!!! But you have to remember to freeze it or use it up quick because it goes bad quickly!
  • tacticalhippie
    tacticalhippie Posts: 596 Member
    i prefer chia and hemp hearts.

    flax has a natural nutty flavour.
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