The significance of flax
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Throughout history, the nutritious flax seed has been an important element of the diet in large parts of Europe and Asia, and when the puritans migrated to North America flax seeds were one of the things they brought with them. Unfortunately, our modern diet in the west tends to contain very low amounts of flax seed and many people never east flax seed. This is sad, since flax seed and the oil found within has been linked to several important health benefits.
Cooking with flax seed is not difficult and there is a myriad of different ways to bring back this beneficial seed to our diet and there is also a myriad of different flax seed recipes available. You can for instance make a flax seed smoothie or sprinkle ground flax seed over your breakfast cereals. If you are fond of baking, you can make your own flax seed bread by adding flax seed to your favourite bread recipe. The flax plant hails from a region that stretches from eastern shores of the Mediterranean to India and is believed to be one of several crops firsts domesticated by the people living in the Fertile Crescent. Eventually, flax seed cultivation spread and we do for instance know that it was extensively cultivated by farmers in ancient Egypt. The flax plant is not only popular for its seed; the fibres are used to make linen cloth. This trait was of even higher importance before cotton and synthetic fibres became readily available.
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