HEMP SEEDS
Cody Rivera
BIDS: 210 The Curious Cook
10.2.15
Hemp Seeds, They’re Better Than Your Seeds!
Highly nutritious foods do not usually reach the same heights of competition as the National football league, until you are introduced to hemp seeds. The hemp plant preludes us the hard-shelled seed seems to influence a future competition amongst other nuts, seeds, and plants.
Hemp knowledge does not guarantee anyone from sticking to his or her traditional nuts, seeds, and plants. In a television news report on WB 11 News At Ten, Dr. Mike Rosen interviews Charles Norman Holmps of Living Harvest Conscious Nutrition, about the benefits of hemp Seeds. “Hemp seed is about 30% protein, that’s actually more protein than meat.”
Charles Norman Holmps had many supports behind his feelings towards hemp seeds. Many health practitioners promote hemp to be the perfect food for the human diet. The book, Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill, notes, “the oil in the seeds is the best source of EFA’s of any food.” “The seeds of the hemp plant are one of the highest sources of the essential fats, Omega-6 and Omega-3”. There’s over hundreds of Facebook pages on “HempSeeds” with thousands of followers and startup nutrition companies.
Not only that, but hemp seeds are consumed by many people around the world, particularly a growing consumption in the United States. The Netherlands have shops dedicated to just hemp foods. European cities are growing the hemp seed industry by implementing many shops that serve hemp seed based products. What is it about Hemp that makes it so nutritious for everyone around the world?
The protein rich super seed was cultivated over 10,000 years ago, around the world, and is said to be first cultivated and discovered in China. People around the world used hemp seeds well into the 20th and 21st century.
Lynn Osburn, a writer on hemp and farming, has researched and written about hemp, The most nutritionally complete food sources in the world. Her research dates back to the early 1900’s when hemp was very much legal and produced in America. Lynn suggests hemp seeds are the most nutritionally complete food sources in the world.
Modern hemp seed activists tend to describe hemp as well-balanced vegetarian protein source that is one of the best sources of protein. Hemp also features plenty of other nutrients including abundant fiber, chlorophyll, vitamins and omega-3 and -6 essential fatty acids. I have never continuously eaten hemp seeds, I have tried them a few times, but it gave me a sort of renewed energy for the day. Each of these associations comes from a good understanding of its chemicals.
Food Chemist have found that hemp seeds are one of the most nutritious seeds that we know of on this planet because of its wide spectrum of health benefits that come from their concentrated source of essential fats, complete proteins, enzymes, and vitamins. Essential fats are needed in our everyday diet because they effect some things such as our neurological functioning and immune response.
Because hemp seeds are protein rich foods, they can replace meats and dairy products for people who are vegetarian. This can also replace medicine-based products that help vegans attain proteins found in animal based products.
Gabriel Cousens, M.D. writes in, There is a cure for diabetes, “The tiny shelled seed of the amazing hemp plant has a pleasant nutty flavor, similar to sunflower seeds. The seeds are packed with nutrients—they are an excellent source of the essential fatty acids, delivering these EFA’s in a balanced 3.75:1ratio. Hemp seed is a source of complete protein, containing all the essential amino acids.”
So the hemp seeds are the Superman of the food species. What happens when hemp is added to foods like salads, dairy, pesto, etc.?