According to the pharmacopoeia

This product is the dried mature fruit of Cannabis sativa L. of the mulberry family. Harvested in fall when the fruit is ripe, remove impurities, sun-dried.

Properties: the product is ovoid, 4-5.5mm long, 2.5-4mm in diameter, gray-green or gray-yellow surface, with fine white or brown reticulation, two sides are ribbed, the tip is slightly pointed, and there is 1 round fruit stalk scar at the base. Pericarp thin and brittle, easy to break, seed coat green, cotyledons 2, creamy white, rich in oil. Slight gas, light flavor.

Taste and Meridian: sweet, flat. Attributes to the spleen, stomach and large intestine meridians.

Functions and Indications: Moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels, used for blood deficiency and fluid deficiency, intestinal dryness and constipation.

Usage and dosage: 10-15g

Storage: Keep in a cool and dry place, prevent heat and moth.

Nutritional Composition of Flaxseed

Nutrient Content of Flaxseed
The main components of flaxseed are oil and protein, dietary fiber content is high, but most of the non-digestible dietary fiber, its value needs to be further developed.

Flaxseed kernel about 25-35% oil, 20-25% protein, 20-30% dietary fiber, but also rich in vitamins and minerals.

Application of flaxseed in food

Jute oil: jute kernel oil content of nearly 50%, can be fried into jute oil. The high content of unsaturated fatty acids in jute oil, while containing a large number of delayed aging VE, selenium, zinc, manganese, tocopherols and phytosterols, in lowering cholesterol, antioxidant, eliminating the body’s free radicals and so on have a significant role, and safe and non-toxic, is a high value of the use of functional fats.

Snacks: flaxseed has a fresh and fragrant flavor, delicious, nutritious, easy for human digestion and absorption. The kernel as a dry fruit as raw materials for food, baking or adding pesto and other spices production, taste good.

Fire hemp beverage: fire hemp as raw materials can develop a variety of beverage food. In addition to the industrialization of the fire hemp tea, with guava fruit, kudzu, cassia, mulberry and other production of fire hemp ecological tea and herbal fire hemp tea and other mixed drinks. Fire hemp kernel and sesame seeds with slow fire fried to golden yellow, put into a blender, add water to beat into a young smooth, with gauze separated from the dregs, and then the fire hemp kernel juice with sugar and other flavoring made of fire hemp kernel tea

Fire Ma Su Zi porridge: “this recipe” and “after the elbow square” are recorded, will be 15g fire Ma Ren and 10g Zi Su Zi grinding with water, take the juice in 2 times to the appropriate amount of round-grained rice porridge food, can moisten the bowels and laxative.

Protein nutrients: fire Ma Ren protein mainly contains Ma Ren protein and Ma Ren albumin. Hemp kernel protein 65% for hemp kernel globulin, can promote digestion, the other 35% for albumin, containing a variety of essential amino acids needed by the human body, so it is a very excellent new source of plant proteins, extracted and made into a product that can replace some of the milk drink. It has been proved that flaxseed protein powder is easy to be digested and absorbed, and can improve the value of athletes’ hemoglobin, serum albumin, serum pre-protein and other nutritional indexes, so that athletes’ endurance and strength are enhanced, sleep significantly improved, and physical fitness for rapid recovery.

Cooking and processing ingredients: some unique local characteristics of food such as turkey, hemp nuts crispy duck, hemp nuts tofu, hemp nuts pastries, etc. are used to fire hemp seeds as a supplementary material. The dietary fiber in the shell of flaxseed can be applied to diet foods, fruit and vegetable milk drinks, chewable tablets and other functional foods, can unclog the intestinal tract, nourish the face detoxification; used in diabetes, hypertension patients diet, you can regulate blood glucose, blood lipids; in the bread, cookies, and other foods to add 5% -10% of the shell of the dietary fiber of flaxseed, you can improve the texture of the food.

Flaxseed wine: from the “Wai Tai Secrets” records, will be 150g of flaxseed research into fine powder, with 500g of rice wine soaking, discretionary consumption can be complementary to the spleen and dampness, to enhance the role of nourishment and medicinal power.

Other: activated carbon made from flaxseed shell can be used for food decolorization, aroma adjustment, water treatment and a variety of food manufacturing in the catalyst carrier, the preparation of hemp-plastic composite materials suitable for high-grade food packaging materials and warehousing logistics, safety and environmental protection.