Source of flaxseed
- **Gross composition of flaxseed - 40% oil, 26% protein, 4% ash, 5% crude protein and 25% carbohydrate.
- **WHOLE SEED OR GROUND OMEGA golden flaxseed is available, one pound bag to a
truckload, food grade, pure from:
- Reimers Seed Farm, RR 3, Carrington, ND 58421,
- Phone: 701-652-3322, FAX 701-652-3430
- email: reimers@daktel.com
- Web site www.reimersflax.com
- SK Foods. Box 1236. Wahpeton, ND 58421.
- Phone:701-642-3322 email: skfood@rrt.net
- Red River Commodities, Box 3022, Fargo, ND 58108
- phone 701-282-2600 website: www.redriv.com
- USA Organics, Box 253, Tappen, ND 58487
- phone 701-327-8296
- MAGCO Dakota Flax, 2012 Westfield Avenue, Minot, ND 58701
- phone 701-837-6238 website: www.dakotaflax.com
- Howe Seeds, PO Box 496, McLaughlin, SD 57642
- Phone: (605)823-4892 Fax: (605)823-4892 Cellular: (605)848-1301 website: www.howeseeds.com
- ENRECO, INC.,
- P.O. Box 186, Newton, WI 53063
- Phone 800-962-9536
- Website: www.OmegaFields.com
- **Ground OMEGA golden flaxseed (flax flour) is available from ROMAN MEAL MILLING,
Inc., 4014 15th Ave. NW, Fargo, ND 58102, Phone: 701-282-9656, in 25 lb bags.
- **Whole flaxseed keeps several years at room temperature in cool, dry storage without any
appreciable change in chemical composition or flavor characteristics.
- Ground flaxseed (flour) keeps without appreciable change in chemical composition or flavor
characteristics for several days or weeks at room temperature or several months in cold
storage at 30-40F, or several more months at 0F.
- Defatted flaxseed possible source:
Montana Specialty Mills, LLC Great Falls
A DAILY "DOSE" OF GROUND FLAXSEED IS ABOUT 25-30 grams or equal to 3 heaping
Tablespoons of ground flaxseed. The flaxseed is 35-40% oil. A DAILY DOSE of cold pressed
flaxseed oil is one to three Tablespoons in salad dressing, direct, mixed in cottage cheese, used
in stir-fried food at medium temperatures or with water added.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON FLAX AS FOOD . . . . . etc.
- Proceedings of the Flax Institute . . . 52nd - to present.
- The Omega 3 Phenomenon. Donald O. Rudin, M.D., and Clara Felix, Rawson Associates, N.Y., 1987. (Book)
- Fats and Oils, UDO Erasmus, Ph.D., nutrition, Alive Books, Vancouver, Canada, 1986 (Book).
- Linseed. K.S. Gill, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, 386 pp., Book, 1987.
- Flaxseed (linseed) Oil and the Power of Omega-3. Johnston, Ingeborg M., and James R. Johnston, Ph.D., 32 pp., Booklet, Keats Publishing, Inc., New Canaan, Conn., 1990.
- Cunnane, Stephen C., et al. High "-linolenic acid flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum) some nutritional properties. British Journal of Nutrition 69: 1993. (Cunnane is at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.)
- Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. Cunnane, S.C., and L.U. Thompson, Editors, 383 pages, 1995, American Oil Chemists Society Press. ISBN 0-935315-60-8.
- Essential Fatty Acids in Health and Disease. Edward N. Siguel, M.D., Ph.D., Nutrek Press, Nutrek Inc., ISBN 0-9642534-0-2. P.O. Box 1269, Brookline, MA 02146.
- McCord, Holly, RD, with Linda Rao. TOP SEED with its healing powers, FLAX is the next nutritional star. Prevention Magazine, April, 1997, pp. 81-85, also p. 16.