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Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: October 12, 2010 04:08PM I made some sesame seed mylk the other day. I bought some unhulled seeds from Whole Foods (the only kind they sell) and soaked them for about half a day. What I noticed was a slight bitter aftertaste from them, just like I experience eating raw tahini and raw hulled seeds. In the past I figured that it was the processing that produced the bitter taste (like it is such a fragile oil that it was destroyed by the heat of extraction or something) but now I am wondering what gives? Can the unhulled seeds get rancid just sitting in a bin? Or is it just the property of the seeds to be that way? It seems like it's kind of toxic. Re: Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
pborst
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Date: October 12, 2010 09:48PM banana who Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I made some sesame seed mylk the other day. I >Can the unhulled seeds get rancid just > sitting in a bin? Or is it just the property of > the seeds to be that way? It seems like it's kind > of toxic. Ask the vendor how fresh the stock is. I'd personally give up the unhulled sesame on account of high oxalic acid content, high omega 6 oil content, and more importantly, with hemp, chia and flax, there are better alternatives. Best. Paul Re: Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
Horsea
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Date: October 15, 2010 11:21PM I recall reading that sprouting sesame seeds inactivates the oxalic acid. And it must be true: I have eaten plain raw sesame seeds, then had leg cramps at night. Next time I sprouted the seeds to about 1/16", and had no such reaction, or any other negative reaction.
But that's just me. Re: Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: October 16, 2010 03:15AM I read today somewhere that you can only sprout the hulled ones. Wonder why... Re: Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
Horsea
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Date: October 17, 2010 09:35PM Well, that's odd. I buy only the brown, unhulled ones, and they sprout fine. Re: Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: October 18, 2010 04:06PM How do you know that they have sprouted? I soaked mine for half a day and they seemed more plump, but that doesn't really prove anything, does it? Or did yours grow tails? (I read about using the hulled ones in Alicia Cohen's book, by the way.) Re: Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
Horsea
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Date: October 18, 2010 06:17PM I will look into the claim that hulled seeds will sprout. Tks for mentioning that book.
When my brown, unhulled seed developed little tails, I would call that a sprout. Re: Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: October 18, 2010 10:25PM I heard, and have followed this advice, unhulled indicates they haven't been degerminated through rough handling, which can destroy sprouting ability. Plumping up isn't sprouting, btw. Re: Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: October 21, 2010 03:35AM nice discussion,lately I make up my lawn Re: Questions about sesame seeds...
Posted by:
Horsea
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Date: October 22, 2010 04:41AM Also, I sprout the black sesame seeds. You can see the little sprout easily that way. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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