Omega-3. Chia Oil, Bioactive components and health benefits

Chia oil decreases cardiovascular risk by lowering blood pressure, attenuating body inflammation and coagulation factors, and significantly lowering cholesterol LDL and triglycerides. In addition, a recently published study demonstrates that chia oil provided to pregnant and breastfeeding women increases the content of ALA and EPA in erythrocyte phospholipids and the content of ALA and DHA in breast milk. Chia oil is of great value from a nutritional perspective. Chia oil is an excellent source of anti-oxidizing bioactive components such as tocopherols and polyphenols. Such a special composition of fatty acids provides chia oil an exceptional position among vegetable oils as one of the best vegetal sources of alpha-linolenic acid, which is completely deficient in our Western diet.