are my flax seeds going to waste??

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in my last meal of the day, usually 2 cans of tuna, i throw in about 3 spoon fulls of flax seeds.

i just swallow them whole. are they going to waste because of this?

i mean, stomac acid is a super powerful thing and can burn through just about anything, so i'd like to think they are still being used.

but, i dunno.

whats the deal?

 

[Miss24k]

You need to grind the seeds or else chew them very well. Whole seeds will simply pass through the body.

 

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You need to grind the seeds or else chew them very well. Whole seeds will simply pass through the body.

hmm, but i still have the problem with stomach acid.

i have seen demostrations where they take some from someones stomac and burn through steel with it, while they show how durable the lining of the stomach is.

thanks for the reply nonetheless.

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Yeah, you need to blend them up. I do. Turns them into a powder. I don't know much about stomach acid dissolving steel, but I do know what I have heard and that is that you need to either chew well or blend up the flax seeds into dust.

By the by, don't mix the powder with tuna. It almost solidifies the tuna. It did for me, anyway. It was disgusting. Just eat your tuna (protein first, always), and then go ahead and toss in the flax with some water, and swallow whole.

 

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thanks tom.