Chia seeds – benefits, recipe and nutritional value

Chia seeds gained a great popularity over the last couple of years, especially between people that want to lose some weight trough meal plans. Like all other seeds, chia seeds are rich in vitamins and minerals.

Chia seeds – recipe

With the ability to absorb the liquid and make pudding from anything liquid to put in, there is a wide variety of recipes you can make with these wonderful seeds. We have chosen the simplest recipe to effectively consume seeds without much cooking, roasting and other time consuming activities in the kitchen.

Chia can make a pudding from any liquid.

Chia fresca – chia seeds recipe

The simplest way to consume them is to drink them. The ancient recipe originaly named Iskiate or Chia fresca is very popular. Leave chia seeds in half of a glass of water overnight, soak half a lemon in the morning, pour water and enjoy a delicious drink.

Nutritional value of chia seeds – 15 grams

They are well known by their high omega-3 fatty acids content so with one tablespoon of chia seeds you basically matched your daily omega-3 fatty acids intake considering that you have matched your omega-6 and omega 3 ratio.

Marketing exaggerations on chia seeds

We can hear that chia contains more micronutrients than other known foods (3x more spinach iron, 15x more magnesium than broccoli), but what no one takes into account is the amount of chia seeds that is 100 grams in those cases. Can you eat 100 grams of chia seeds in the same meal? Unlike 100 grams of spinach, the same thing with broccoli and other foods. Chia is great, but there is no need to overwhelm, it is a great story in theory, but reality is a bit different.

100 grams of chia seeds has 7.7 mg of iron – you can’t eat 100 grams of them
300 grams of spinach has 8.1 mg of iron – you can eat 300 grams of spinach

When they are in season?

You can buy them troughout the year.

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