Hemp – Cannabis sativa – A Nutritional Powerhouse

Cannabis Hemp contains pure digestible protein with a good balance of all eight essential amino acids

Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) was first cultivated in China more than 6,000 years ago, and was used as a food source long before soy foods.  Hempseed is considered by leading researchers to be one of the most nutritious super foods on the planet — packed with protein, vitamin E, Omega-3, and GLA.

Hemp contains pure, digestible protein, with a good balance of all eight essential amino acids.  Hemp is not only delicious, but comprised of smaller-chain edistin and albumin protein, making it the gold standard of plant foods.  Hemp has three times the vitamin E of flax and twice the iron and magnesium (a key mineral often depleted by industrial agriculture) contained in flax.

Cannabis hemp seeds contain all the essential amino acids and essential fatty acids necessary to maintain healthy human life.  No other single plant source provides complete protein in such as easily digestible form, not has the oils essential to life in as perfect a ratio for human health and vitality.

Hempseed is the highest of any plant in essential fatty acids.  Hempseed oil is among the lowest in saturated fats at 8% of total oil volume.  The oil pressed from hempseed contains 55% linoleic acid (LA) and 25% linolenic acid (LNA).  Only flax oil has more linolenic acid at 58%, but hempseed oil is the highest in total essential fatty acids at 80% of total oil volume.

“These essential fatty acids are responsible for our immune response.  In the old country the peasants ate hemp butter.  They were more resistant to disease than the nobility.”  The higher classes wouldn’t eat hemp because the poor ate it. – R. Hamilton, ED.D., Ph.D. Medical Researcher-Biochemist U.C.L.A. Emeritus

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