Hemp Milk Nutrition

Hemp milk, a non-dairy beverage, is a wondrous and fabulously healthy choice for those looking for a substitute for soy milk or having lactose-intolerance from drinking milk that comes from cows, other bovine beings and udder-souls alike. It is made from industrially grown hemp plants that don't contain as much of the psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. The effects of drinking hemp milk aren't quite the same as smoking pot as hemp milk contains none of the psychoactive chemicals that marijuana does.

Hemp milk nutrition is luxurious with essential fatty acids, digestible protein (ranking second to the previously better known soy-protein), magnesium, phytosterols, beta-carotene, calcium, fiber, iron, potassium, phosphorus, riboflavin, niacin and thiamine, vitamin E. Hemp milk nutrition is quite wholesome, making you feel full before you think about another meal and is, thus, great for visceral fat reduction and for people whose exercise regime seems to dwindle and are desperate to lose weight. Also hemp milk for toddlers is beneficial and also for women suffering from cellulite to include it in their anti-cellulite diet.

Nutritional Info

• 900 mg Omega-3 Fatty Acids
• 2800 mg Omega-6 Fatty Acids
• All 10 Essential Amino Acids
• 4 grams of Digestible Proteins
• 1 gram of Dietary Fiber
• 46% of RDA of Calcium
• 0% Cholesterol
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin B12
• Folic Acid
• Vitamin D
• Magnesium
• Potassium
• Phosphorous
• Riboflavin
• 20% of RDA of Iron
• Zinc

The nutrients found in hemp milk that make it better than other kinds of milk, are -

Essential Fatty Acids

Essential fatty acids, omega-3 and omega-6, are found amply in hemp milk. Omega-6 fatty acids that are primary lipids found in skin, help strengthen and soften skin. They are good for cardiovasular health and for the musculoskeletal system, cell-structure and protect the gastrointestinal tract. A part of our DNA called 'telomere' usually shortens with age, infection, lack of exercise, obesity or smoking. And the alpha-linolenic acid (ANA) or omega-3 essential fatty-acids, that don't occur naturally in our body, but specifically in hemp milk, have been found out to slow down the aging process by as much as five years, thus proving to be one of the anti-aging foods.

Omega-3 fatty acids, which are part of the hemp milk nutrition, have other hemp milk benefits such as acting as an anti-inflammatory and anti-clotting ability, lowering blood pressure, treating depression and increasing joint-flexibility. They aid and retain brain-functioning in deference to memory and concentration. Both essential fatty acids nourish and repair cell-membrane and tissues in our body; especially, those of our brain, heart and eyes. These essential fatty acids, most definitively, mustn't be confused with the fat that your body goes on storing.

Digestible Protein Without Phytates and Enzyme Inhibitors

Hemp proteins are more easily digested, absorbed and used by the human body than soy-protein due to lack of oligosaccharides, that are complex sugars due to which a lot of people have plaints related to indigestion, gas and flatulence. The protein structure of hemp seeds, originally, is 66% edestin and 33% albumin. Globulins and albumins are globular proteins. Albumin and Edestin have quite similar molecular structure compared to protein found in the human body, due to which hemp protein is very easily absorbed into human blood and assumes critical roles like DNA repair and aids in the making and functioning of plentiful enzymes, hormones, hemoglobin and antibodies in the human body.

Proteins in hemp milk do not contain the anti-nutrients that are contained in a lot of unsoaked or unfermented wholegrains, seeds and legumes (including soy). These are phytic acid (or phytates) and enzyme inhibitors (both found in soy too). Phytic acid is a substance present in the brans and hulls of all legumes and seeds (including soy and soy milk), that adversely affects Vitamin D metabolism and bone-growth, and also gives rise to mineral-deficiencies in the body and tooth-decay, leading to a weak immune system. Enzyme inhibitors basically prevent the enzymes in our body, especially natural digestive enzymes, from functioning normally at all, thus interfering with our digestive health, acting as a stressor on the pancreas, and hampering or most entirely blocking the uptake of trypsin that is required for digesting protein and the uptake of amino acids.

All 10 Essential Amino Acids

The human body needs 21 amino acids in order to survive. Eight amino acids from the essential amino acids list can be obtained from food and the other two are conditionally essential are synthesized only if all other eight are consumed. No other plant or animal source for food has been found to have all the first ten essential amino acids that hemp milk contains. Hemp seeds health benefits are no different from other seeds in having amino acids. However, what does make them special is that they have amino acids in the right albumin-globulin ratio in the form of globulin estedin: 65% glutamin and 35% albumin. Amino acids are good for fighting against cardiovascular diseases, healing brain-damage like cognitive loss of memory or learning and some other functions.

Phytosterols

Phytosterols (also called 'plant sterols') are phytochemicals, but not in cow milk. They reduce inflammation and block cholesterol absorption from your intestines. It, thus, lowers the cholesterol levels in your body and prevents risks of heart-disease. They also play an important role in hormone-regulation and cell-metabolism.

Growing hemp, as farmers have discovered, regenerates the soil its grown in naturally and stumps the growth of weeds. It doesn't need any insecticides or pesticides, making very eco-friendly, so no furrowed frowns here. According to an estimate, about 90% Canadian hemp is sold in the US.

So, that's about it, for now. Though, hemp milk with its 'slightly nutty and chalky flavor' (according to the people who have tried it) would probably make some tongues a bit repulsed perhaps. After all, some good things do require time for us to take a liking to, as we're in a world where the mundane and harmful seems to endorse themselves as something good by way of business and advertising, that you might be habituated to it (even might have taken to loving it) for far too long. But when you know you're doing yourself and the environment a favor by drinking hemp milk the only question remains, why not?