flax meal can't be heated for omega 3s

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At 04:56 PM 12/8/2000 -0600, you wrote:

>My nutritionist has told me that cooking with flax oil or flax meal ruins

>the omega 3 benefit. So, now I still use the meal in cookies, etc., but

>know it only give us fiber, not Omega 3s. I was bummed; does anyone have

>information to the contrary?

This is what I've been told as well. I use cold pressed flax seed oil as a

salad dressing to get my O3's. BTW, you should keep flax seed oil in a dark

bottle in the fridge, It goes rancid fast and is expensive too.

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