Chia seeds are among the healthiest foods present on earth. Their benefits to human health and the brain have encouraged many industries to use them in various foods. They have a significant amount of all the essential elements required by our body. These seeds have antioxidants inside them that shields against the production of free radicals. Free radicals contribute to aging and damage cell molecules which means that with chia seeds consumption, both processes are slowed down. Many cosmetic companies use chia seeds in their products as they are known to slow down aging.
Chia seeds are rich in proteins. They are also known to help reduce weight in people. Since these seeds are rich in protein content, they reduce the appetite of an individual, thus, making them lose weight. These seeds also aid in making bones strong. They contain all the essential elements required by our bones to stay strong and healthy. Calcium, Phosphorus, and Magnesium are the top three nutrients that the bones need which are all present in chia seeds.
Since chia seeds have thousands of benefits, people try to use them in every recipe they follow. The following are some ways of how to use chia seeds to make your foods and drinks even healthier to consume.
Chia juice
It’s not necessary to use water as the only liquid to soak these seeds in and consume. You can use any fruit juice, let it be apple or peach. Take 5 cups of juice and almost ½ cup of chia seeds. Soak them in for at least 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, your chia juice is all ready to be served. You can add ice accordingly.
Chia cereal
This is by far, the healthiest food to consume. If you get to know the health benefits, you are definitely going to replace your regular cereal with chia cereal for breakfast. All you need is milk and some almonds and honey. Soak the chia seeds in milk for almost for three hours. Almonds and honey are totally a choice for you. Some people like to consume chia cereal simply while others like adding bananas, almonds, and flavored extracts to enhance the flavor.
Chia seeds in cakes
Many bakers now use chia seeds in their cakes and biscuits. You can also add them to the bread mixture while baking. Simply adding them to baking items will boost the fiber and protein content in them, thus making them fully nutritious.
Chia seeds in salad
Salads are always healthy. Whether it’s a vegetable salad or fruit salad, chia seeds can be added to give it a finishing touch while preparing. They can simply be sprinkled over to give a healthy boost to it. Most salad dressings are not much healthy as they are always overloaded with sugar. Over consumption of sugar is not good for health. Making your own salad dressing with chia seeds sprinkled over is the best you could do for your health.
Wow…. What a mind blowing information. Never heard of Chai seeds. After reading, it’s really good seeds for healthy life. Thanks for sharing
Chia seeds are indeed very good for us. These are some great suggestions!
I love chia seeds! Perfect source of protein
These are great suggestions! Thank you for sharing.
I love adding chia seeds to my salad or porridge !!!
A very well written post thank you for sharing today x
I have heard a lot about chia seeds benifits but always wondered how to ise them, thanks for sharing these ideas 😊
These are such great ideas! I feel like many people don’t know the full benefits of implementing chia seeds into your diet. They are so versatile as you showed. I love adding chia seeds to my smoothies, overnight oats, chia pudding, and making homemade raspberry jam! Thanks so much for sharing!
My dad is a big fan of chia for all the healthy benefits it has, I should give it a try
i tend to use chia seeds in salads. i had never heard of chia seed cereal.
I havent used chia seeds here in our place. I dont know if we have chia seeds here. But i hope i can use this one day. Thanks for sharing.
I just put soaked chia seeds in my smoothie this morning! I love the idea of chia juice though. I’m not a big juice drinker but whenever I next get juice, I will try that.
My neice whenever bakes cake adds chia seeds. It might sound weird but I had never used chia seeds. But also I did not know its benefits. I also guess I should start using it in my salad and juice because of the calcium fact that you had added here because I have calcium deficiency. And one thing I really liked that it will help in weight loss. I am bookmarking it for my further references!
I’m actually new to chia seeds and have just started introducing them into my food so thank you for the inspiration!
I think that I have some in my pantry but can’t recall ever actually using them in a recipe. Interesting information. I didn’t know they were used in beauty products and also had no clue they were a good source of protein. I will test some out here this week. I feel like the teens could add them to smoothies and breakfast granola too for extra protein.
I put chia seeds in salads. I also put them in smoothies.
Overnight chia puddings are great easy and filling breakfasts. Have also tried adding chia seeds in banana bread and it’s great!
I still haven’t used chia seeds in anything yet. I know they are super popular right now. Thanks for the ideas on how to use them!
This would be great to add to my after work out meals
There’s some great ideas here thank you! I love to put chia seeds in porridge with honey and flaxseeds!
I knew that they are healthy, but did not know how much. I like them in a salad with virgin olive oil.
Chia seeds are good for losing weight?
I use Chia seeds in my morning cereal and oatmeal drink. They are great and very healthy!
This is really interesting. I used to use them all the time but ran out and forgot to get more. They are really good and easy to add to meals which is handy.
Some of these ways are new to me haha. But I can see how it makes sense to add it. I will keep these in my mind. Thank you for sharing!
I love Chia seeds. I add them to my oatmeals every breakfast.
I love this and will have to pick up some chia seeds as I am loving the health and wellness benefits and love that they’re packed with protein!
Ooohhhh….I didn’t imagine chia can be fused together, to make some juice! It’s a first and one I can’t wait to try out. Thanks for the tip-off!
I put chia seeds in oatmeal. It does fill me up quick and I notice that I seem to have more energy after eating a bowl. I will try that chia juice. It sounds yummy.