even flax seed is ordinarily a reddish - brown color . Golden flax seed is a cross get for the color that makes it attractive for culinary intention . More brown flax seminal fluid is made into cooking oils and linseed fossil oil , which is used by artists in dry out fossil oil rouge . Regular flax ejaculate is mostly grown in Canada while golden flax semen is grown in North and South Dakota .

Color

Golden flax seed has a more attractive color than veritable flax seed when it is blended into dinero and other foods . In 1989 , North Dakota State University developed Omega , a hybrid variety of golden flax source , for the food market . Whole flax seed are sometimes used in breads , cereal , cookies , salads and yogurts . If they are not masticate , whole flax seeds will occur through the body . If the semen are earth , they release more nutrients to the trunk . Just as whole yellow cum are more attractive than whole brown seeds , priming coat yellow seeds are more attractive than ground brown seeds .

Taste

Companies that betray golden flax seed boast its say " haywire - larder " tone and other adjective claiming to classify it from regular flax seed . In fact , there is small if any difference in gustation between gold and regular flax seed .

Nutrients

Tests bear by the Flax Council of Canada and the Canadian Grain Commission show that the content of alpha - linolenic pane , an Omega 3 roly-poly acid , is near monovular in brown and golden flax seed . Omega 3 is a polyunsaturated fatso loony toons that the body can not give rise itself and must obtain through dietetical source . It is touted as reducing the layer of cholesterol in the blood and plaque in the arteria . The levels of other mineral and fibre are also the same in both regular and golden flax seeds .

Culinary Uses and Storage

Both regular flax seeds and prosperous flax seeds are used in preferred formula in the same way . They also hive away the same fashion . If whole seeds are clean and ironic , they can be stash away for up to a year at way temperature . Ground source can be salt away for several days in an airtight container and for about one month in a freezer .

Price

Although the taste and nutritional values are the same in both regular and gilt flax ejaculate , the less physically attractive browned flax is usually cheaper . aureate flax seed is often grown organically , making it even more expensive .

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