Flax Seeds - Fantastic Functional Food

The book entitled "Flax seeds - Fantastic Functional Food" gives an insight into the details of Flax seeds - their ecology, soil and its production and application. The book also gives an indepth information into the health and nutritional benefits particularly, its role as functional foods in humans as well as animals in view of the present prevalent scenario. The function of flax seeds with respect to nutritional composition and functional role and usefulness of each nutrient in maintaining optimum health and prevention of disease is also discussed with scientific evidence. Along with all the above aspects few commonly consumed, traditional and modern day recipes have been re-developed and standardized by enhancing the nutritive value by adding Flax seeds.It was interesting to see that flax seed was found to be highly acceptable in most of the commonly consumed recipes. The book will find its use for nutritionists, dieticians, students - graduate and post graduate, teachers and professors, common people as well as people with diseased conditions as the content focuses on providing information about flax seeds and its health and benefits for all categories of population.

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Dr. Ritu Pradhan, Associate Professor, Foods and Nutrition Department, Government Home Science College, Sector 10, Chandigarh, India affiliated to Panjab University has been teaching Graduates and Post Graduate Students for more than 15 years. Thrust areas in Teaching and Research include Public Health Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition & Food Science.