are these flax crackers OK ?

  • ARE these OK to use ?

    http://www.drinthekitchen.com/products.html

    Dr. In The Kitchen - makers of flackersŪ - flax seed crackers, a gluten free food - high in Omega-3 fatty acids and fiber. FlackersŪ are sprouted and dehydrated, so they are a raw food product. FlackersŪ


  • What are the ingredients?
  • In looking at the ingredients, I'd eat them sparingly - especially the fruit ones. But they look OK for Ph2
  • How funny - I just saw these for the first time at Whole Foods so I bought them. I got the "dill" flavored ones (the word "dill" is very hard to read on the package and I would not have chosen this flavor if I had seen that). They are seriously weird but I like them!

    The ingredients for the dill flavor are just flax seeds (whole), vinegar, liquid aminos and some herbs (dill and red pepper). I considered this fine as whole flax seeds are essentially undigestible ... but then I question whether or not to bother, as you would be missing out on all the benefits of flax seed...

    I am looking at recipes to make these in a dehydrator. There is discussion in the raw food boards that soaking flax seed makes them more digestible. Though this is getting away from the OP's question...

    3 TBS/1 oz of flax seeds are allowed in Phase 1 (as the one nut/seed serving per day), which is approximately the serving size of Flackers (25 g) = 6. As long as they are the simple ones. I didn't see any at Whole Foods with additions such as fruit, but as Jenn said, that would be for Phase 2.
  • They look fine to me as long as you stick with a serving size. I would save the cinnamon and currant ones for Phase 2, though, although the amount of currants in a serving probably don't amount to much.