October 2024 Newsletter Flaxseed | Cold-pressed Flax oil | Milled Flax Seed

Hi and welcome to our Autumn 2024 Newsletter.

Autumn is here plus a Special Offer to Introduce you to Flax Porridges and Mueslis
Autumn Special Flaxjacks
Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB)
Flax For Fibre
Two New Facebook Groups

Stop press news: Yesterday we had our annual Soil Association Organic inspection, which we stress about for weeks beforehand. If you want to know more about what they check when visiting us there is more information here. Soil Association Check

We sailed through it. Flax Farm is still formally Organic for the next 12 months. The inspector was lovely and very complimentary about Flax Farm and our products.

Autumn is here

As the days grow shorter and greyer, warming bowls of flax porridge are a perfect way to cheer you up to start an autumn day. Our Flax breakfasts and our other flax foods can be a great boost for health.

They can improve your metabolism, raise your mood and even help you lose a few pounds to help fight the tendency to put on the pounds at this time of year. If you find your digestion starts to slow down, because you aren’t as active in autumn and winter, Flax can help with that too.

Discover Flax for Breakfast in Flax Farm Flax Porridge and Muesli

Autumn SPECIAL DISCOUNT (until 15th November) To encourage you to find out how wonderful our Flax Porridge and Flax Muesli are and what they can do for you, we are giving a special discount to encourage you to try it:12.5% off Flax Farm Flaxseed Porridge and Muesli:

Use this code: FFBreakfast For porridge and muesli bought before 18/11/24

Eight different varieties, all with a generous 25-33% of milled gold and bronze Flaxseed and loads of fruit and seeds in each bowlful. High in omega-3, tummy-friendly fibre, soluble fibre, beta glucans and polyphenols. No added sugar. Naturally gluten-free.

Flaxjack News

Welcome to our NEW Seasonal Special Flaxjacks. As always, naturally gluten-free.

Spiced Pumpkin and Belgian Chocolate Flaxjacks

Created for Halloween or any autumn day, these are luxurious pumpkin Flaxjacks which have just the right balance of spices, studded with chocolate chips and topped with dark and white chocolate. If these sound lovely – they taste even better. Order yours now.

Super-Healthy Spiced Pumpkin with Apple Flaxjacks are new. They are part of our low temperature cooked, no added sugar, no saturated fat range.

I made these because I want an Autumn treat while I am taking my diet very seriously so these are just about WFPB apart from the inclusion of about 5ml extra Flaxseed Oil in each slice. This makes them useful for the OMS diet too. As a bonus they are high in fibre.

Christmas is just around the corner and that’s a good excuse for us to start baking Mince Pie Flaxjacks again. 100% butter or dairy-free/vegan options. As all our Flaxjacks are, they are gluten-free. T

They freeze brilliantly for at least 3 months.

Whole Food Plant Based, WFPB

A Whole Food Plant Based diet (WFPB) is a term coined by the biochemist T. Colin Campbell, (https://nutritionstudies.org/history-of-the-term-whole-food-plant-based/) who wrote The China Stud. It refers to food that is mainly from plants, minimal or no animal products, as unprocessed as possible, certainly no ultra-processed food or ingredients. It can be summed up by: “Nothing bad added, nothing good taken away”. It often means making your meals yourself. This is very different from foods labelled “plant-based” which can highly processed UPFs.

Whether you are looking to lose weight, or been advised to increase fibre in your diet, eat more healthily to improve your next set of blood test results or correct some bad ones WFPB can be a great way to do it. Part of the success of WFPB is that it keeps salt to a minimum, leaves out saturated fats, ultra-processed, inflammatory foods and greatly increases fibre in the diet.

Ground Flax is a superfood wholefood and a great ally when you are doing WFPB. It is very versatile and really bumps up the fibre levels. It also helps the tummy adapt quickly to this if it is a new way of eating for you. See the new category WFPB on our website for products and recipes. https://www.flaxfarm.co.uk/product-category/whole-food-plant-based/

Flax Farm WFPB Foods:

Ground Flaxseed, Bronze and Gold
Whole Flaxseed, Bronze and Gold
Flax Farm Flax Porridge and Muesli
No Saturated Fat-Flaxjacks The purist might raise an eyebrow but since we make the oil and know how good it is, they are WFPB enough for us. For me they have been a high fibre, no added sugar, healthy treat and breakfast on the run that has helped make it easier for me to lose over a stone. 🙂

Focus on Flax for Fibre & short chain fatty acids (SCFAs)

Flax is a great support for health, digestion, the immune system and weight control. Flax is an exceptionally good source of fibre that can help your body from the inside to the outside and its especially good for the bit in the middle. It’s down to the unique types of fibre in flax that makes it work so well.

Flax Fibre has been much in the news recently because it increases the varieties and quantities of good gut bugs which turn fibre into the short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) which keep the gut healthy are absorbed through the gut wall into the body to support health from your brain to your skin. Read More