Food & Nutrition: Culinary Techniques, Diets & Metabolic Health

Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.

Diet and Nutrition
Chia Seeds on a wooden spoon

Comparison of Chia & Salba

Published Sep,08 2011  |  By Lindsay Ingalls

The chia seed is grown in Mexico and parts of Central and South America. It is an edible seed of the salvia hispanica plant, a member of the mint family. Salba, also from the salvia hispanica plant, grown in the Amazon basin in Peru, is an heirloom form of the chia seed.

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