 Shape Foods Answers Some of Your Questions
Are the benefits of flax a recent discovery?
Flax can hardly be considered a new food. It is actually one of the older and, perhaps, original health foods. It was treasured throughout the Roman Empire because of its healing properties. Flax was dubbed one of the original medicines used by Hippocrates.
What are the main benefits of using flax?
Click here for Flax council nutrition page
What's the difference between organic flax oil and Heart Shape’s Flax oil?
When something is organic it means that 95% of the item used to manufacture the product was grown without the use of pesticides.
Heart Shape's cutting-edge technology does not require organic seed because Shape Foods’ process cleanses the oil, taking it one step beyond organic. Our proprietary process eliminates the residues of unwanted pesticides and various contaminants that are often found in non-organic products. Heart Shape's level of purity and taste is unmatched.
Heart Shape claims it's "shelf stable" and so do other flax oil manufacturers. What's the difference? Taste the difference!
Proper manufactured flax oil will protect all the natural flavour and nutritional components of the oil and keep them in tact until the bottle is opened. These flavour and nutritional agents give flax oil great nutritional value and a rich nutty flavour. These agents are very sensitive and if improperly manufactured can break down very quickly resulting in a fowl taste and rancidity. If these agents are removed then the oil can attain a longer shelf life but not deliver the nutritional value. Shape Food’s process protects all these so that you receive all of the flavour and goodness nature provided. It is important to remember, when purchasing flax oil, that light exposure will ruin the oil the quickest degrading the flavour and starting the rancidity process so the container must be opaque. Exposure to oxygen will start the rancidity process as well and exposure to high heat will quicken it.
Heart Shape's Oils are shelf stable for 2 years at room temperature from the date of manufacture. Others require refrigeration.
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