Salba - Organic Salba

Salba Grain Seeds

The use of Salba may help enhance your health and vitality. Salba's extremely high content of Omega 3's, fibre and antioxidants create exceptional possibilities for the improvement of health and nutrition. Salba can be considered the perfect functional food.

Salba is the richest whole food source of Omega 3 fatty acids and fibre found in nature. Every serving (12 grams or approximately 2 flat tablespoons) of Salba provides over 2,400 mg of Omega 3s, over 4,500 mg of dietary fibre, with less than 0.5 net carbohydrates per serving. Gram for gram, Salba provides six times more calcium than whole milk, three times more iron than spinach, and fifteen times more magnesium than broccoli. Salba is all-natural, has no trans-fats, is gluten free, has almost no carbohydrates, and is certified Non-GMO (Genetically Modified Organism).

Salba is the only ancient grain for which there are acute and long-term human nutritional studies. Salba has been extensively researched by Dr. Vladimir Vuksan Associate Director of the Risk Factor Modification Center at St. Michaels Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada, and Associate Professor of Endocrinology and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine. In randomized acute and long-term studies, the clinical results clearly document the great health potential of Salba as a functional food, that can be used as a novel agent in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Salba is the only food that holds a medical patent (60-274.256). The patent pertains to Salba’s ability to manage the effects of diabetes and the dietary approaches to such management. It is focused on methods of improving associated metabolic abnormalities, specifically with Salba , and methods of use in these seeds in lowering blood pressure, blood glucose and post-prandial glycemia. Also it is associated with helping risk factors such as inflammatory factors (hi-C reactive protein), coagulation (fibrinogen, factor VIII, Von Willebrant and fibronolytic factors such as t-PA, iron status and endothelial function.

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