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did you know that 2tbsp of flax and one tbsp of water=one egg?
that's cool.just thought i'd share.
that's cool.just thought i'd share.
did you know?
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killa in manila
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i read an article on it.
Perhaps you would share that article with us??? Doesn't make much sense to me either. An egg had ~6-7 grams of fat and ~6-7 grams of protein, no fiber, and is a great leavening and binding agent. A high quality free-range egg is around 1/3 saturated, 1/3 monounsaturated and 1/3 polyunsaturated fat.
Flax is almost all fat and fiber, almost no protein, no good for leavening, possibly good for binding IF ground up to a very fine meal, has no saturated fat and not much monounsaturated fat. They also have very different vitamin and mineral profiles....so I'm not sure in what way 2 TBSP flax plus 1 TBSP of water is the same as one egg?????
Flax is almost all fat and fiber, almost no protein, no good for leavening, possibly good for binding IF ground up to a very fine meal, has no saturated fat and not much monounsaturated fat. They also have very different vitamin and mineral profiles....so I'm not sure in what way 2 TBSP flax plus 1 TBSP of water is the same as one egg?????
killa in manila
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flaxseeds have almost the same amount of protein of an egg
i'll try to find the article,if not i'll type out the whole article so you can read it
i'll try to find the article,if not i'll type out the whole article so you can read it
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killa in manila said:
Oh, you're talking about flaxseeds....I think their protein count is fairly high, but I would check into the one egg validity.
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killa in manila
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i thinkk they have something like 25g of protein per 100g of flaxseeds,i could be wrong but i'll check and let you know.
Flaxseeds are ~25% protein and the rest of the calories come from fat. 2 TBSP of ground flaxseed gives you 5 g protein and 9 g fat. 1 large egg will give you ~6-7g protein and 5 g fat. Another way to look at is is flaxseed=100 cals and 80% of calories from fat, egg=70 cals and and 60% of calories from fat. They also have a pretty different composition of fats and amino acids etc....
Make sure you take ground flaxseeds. Whole flaxseeds are pretty hard to digest.
Make sure you take ground flaxseeds. Whole flaxseeds are pretty hard to digest.
killa in manila
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whole flaxseds will go through your body undigested
