Serving Size: 3 tablespoons (28g)
Three tablespoons carry 8.8g of protein, among the highest of any seed by weight, and it arrives with the fat and minerals still attached.
One serving covers roughly 93% of a day’s manganese, 50% of copper and 47% of magnesium, which is unusual density for a spoonful of anything.
The fat is mostly polyunsaturated, with linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid sitting at about 3 to 1, a ratio few common seeds match.
Unlike chia or flax, hulled hemp is not a fiber food. Hulling takes most of it away and leaves about 1.1g per serving, so pair it with something that brings fiber.
It holds all nine essential amino acids, though lysine is the limiting one, so hemp alongside lentils or beans across a week does more than hemp on its own.
No grinding needed, unlike flax seed, and no soaking, unlike chia. It goes on food as it comes.
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GI measures how fast a food raises blood sugar.
Tells you how big that rise actually is once portion size is factored in.
Watermelon has a high GI (it digests quickly) but a low GL because a normal serving doesn’t
contain many carbs so the actual blood-sugar impact is small.
Understanding both GI and GL gives you a clearer picture of how foods affect your blood sugar both the speed of the rise and the true impact based on the portion you eat.
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