Eating Hempseeds?

February 26, 2008 in balancing act, diet, Food, health
Tags: dieatary fats, dietary fibre, hefu, hemp milk, hemp oil, hemp protein, hemp seeds, hemp tofu, Legal, minerals, nutritional value, vitamins

Industrial hemp does not have psyoactive qualities like its narcotic cousin. It is mainly cultivated for its fiber and has some other excellent qualities too. It is not illegal (at least in the most of the world – althugh cultivation is illegal in US; in EU and Canada licence for cultivation is needed) as it is not narcotic.

The hemp seeds are the best known source of vegetable proteins (22,5 % all the essential proteins) even better than soy (or even egg whites) and they contain plenty of polysaturated omega-3 fatty acids in excellent balance whit omega-6 (1:3,5 in average) and in much better balanced than soy (1:7). About 30% of the seeds are fats, of which most of these. The seeds also contain plenty of fat-soluble vitamins A, D and E as well as calcium and iron. They contain about 35 % dietary fiber.

Skipping the Soy or Sesame or Peanuts? Try These:

February 8, 2008 in diet, Food
Tags: almond butter, chickpeas, hefu, hemp seeds, horse beans, ice cream, milk, miso, nut butter, oat milk, peanut butter, recipe, soy milk, tahini

Here are some of originally soy products made of something else like other beans or hemp seeds.

• Chickpea-tofu aka Nofu aka Burmese Bean Curd and Hefu made of hemp-seed milk (another recipe).
• Miso made of Horse beans and Chickpeas (not the recipe exactly but explains the method). Miso can also be made of Azuki beans (instead of soy).
• Hemp milk is naturally rich in calcium and in this sense better than soy, also contains plenty of good proteins. And its produce: hemp ice cream. You can also make yogurt of it (follow a soy yogurt recipe). I even found a “soy sauce” made of hemp in one natural food shop.
• Oat milk as this miracle grain has almost as good protein content as soy. Can also be turn to oat cream, yogurt and ice cream as well.

Trying to avoid sesame? Here is a wonderful tahini made of hemp seeds. You can use it to make hummus in usual way.

Trying  to avoid peanuts? Try almond butter or hemp butter (or hemp nut butter) or any other suitable nut butter.

PS. The industrial hemp of which legal hemp-seed-products are made, has extremely low level of cannabinols and is not narcotic.