Hemp Nut: The Typical Composition

Hemp foods are expanding onto the shelves of grocery and health food store shelves. The foods typically contain whole hemp seeds or hemp oil.

Typical forms that hemp is showing up on food shelves in the United States is:

* Nutrition Bars
* Salad Dressing
* Breads
* Cookies
* Pasta
* Frozen Desserts
* Power for Weight Loss Shakes
* Cold Pressed Oil Supplements
* Chips
* Pasta
* Versativa Pulse (Made of 26 whole, raw foods with no additives or preservatives)
* Versativa Hemphoria (A mood enhancement supplement. Food for the brain!)
* Beauty Products
* And much more!

Hemp foods are exceptional for nutrition and taste.

Here is the breakdown of a typical hemp seed:

44% Total Fat (39% Unsaturated & 5% Saturated)
12% Carbohydrates (&% Fiber & 3% Sugars)
06% Ash
05% Moisture
33% Protein

Since hemp has been thought to be only marijuana in the United States, it has gotten a lot of bad press. But from my study of hemp and my eating of hemp based foods I am totally impressed with it's nutritional qualities not to mention the fact that over 25,000 products can be produced out of industrial hemp.