You can eat whole flax seeds but you need to chew them good to break them up. Your stomach will not dissolve whole flax seeds and many of them will come out in your stools. Chew about a tablespoon in the morning. Then drink 8 oz of water. Make sure if you chew flax seeds that you drink water since the seed expand and become gelatinous. There are brown and golden colored flax seeds. The golden cost more but there is not difference in their nutritional value. You can grind them up in a grinder and add them to your smoothies.
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Are all flax seed oils the same? Not all flax seed oils are the same. One of the biggest differences is whether the oil is organic or not. There are groups and associations that assure the consumer that the products they are purchasing are 100% certified organic. Two certifying associations are; Quality Assurance International and the Organic Crop Improvement Association. They certify that growing, fertilizing and harvesting practices of organic flax seed are done to the organic standards. Trying to confirm that a product is organic after the fact in a laboratory or
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