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Old 04-05-2008
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A very good friend of mine

is a licensed hemp producer.

His crop is THC free (or extremely reduced)

He presses his seeds to extract the oil - which has been approved for human consumption. They have been found to be very high (pardon the pun) in the alpha-linoleic acids (omega-3, omega-6). These fats have been proven to have excellent health benefits.

The cake (residue left after pressing) gets used to feed his animals and ground into flour.

He is working with a poultry producer to see if the healthy components of the hemp are retained in the bird flesh.

So far the results have been delicious. I told him he should call the product 'fried chicken', he just rolled his eyes. The CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) is evaluating the hemp as an animal feed.

I have experimented with the hemp and found it can have a nice flavour.
I have used the oil for cooking, but it is at its best as a drizzle (the best was drizzled over duck carpaccio), the hemp flour can be used in baked goods but it contains no gluten and has a strong flavour so when I use it in bread I use about 10 - 15% hemp flour to 85 - 90% wheat flour.

I also made a pretty mean pasta dough with the hemp. I used it in the same proportion with semolina flour as with the breads as you need that gluten to give the pasta its texture. I used the pasta dough to make a hemp and bison lasagna.
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