Re: Whole wheat/grain


"W. Baker" <wbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Helen Back <SiriusC-63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: "Oleg Lego" <rat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:32:05 +1100, Ozgirl posted:
: >
: >>
: >>"hlmw" <hlmw1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: >>> Saw an item on TV that bears thinking about: Whole wheat bread or
other
: >>> such products have been refined, therefore do not contain the whole
: >>> grain, even if it says 100% whole wheat on the package.
: >>> For the whole of the kernel of wheat or other grains to be present
in a
: >>> product it must specify "whole grain".
: >>> I will have to change my buying habits.
: >>> Lorna
: >>
: >>I buy whole grain not whole wheat or wholemeal. Years ago it was
rumoured
: >>that wholemeal bread was dyed to look browner and as they used to
quite
: >>dark'ish I can believe it. I buy soy/linseed and there are intact
grains
: >>of
: >>something in there ;)
: >
: > If they are little black 'teardrop-shaped' grains, they are probably
: > flax (linseed). I did notice someone mentioned that those will go
: > right through you unless they are ground, though.
: >
: > Does anyone here eat roasted flax seed? I love the stuff, and am
: > considering roasting my own. We grow a lot of it around here, and it's
: > cheap.
: >
: So, that is what flaxseed is? Linseed? I have been to every health
store in
: my area and not one sold flaxseed!

Yup, the flax plant, when beaten produces the fiber that is woven into
linen. It is a wet beating process called retting. This I learned form
doing crossword puzzles(the tem retting, not the linen making from flax:-)

So one could literally "eat their shorts" then ;)


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