At 4:30 +1000 9/4/1999, Todd Moody wrote:

>Yes, but most nuts have very poor w-6:w-3 ratios.  Hazels, for
>example, have a ratio of 39:1. Brazil nuts have a ratio of 383:1!

I've generated a listing of w-3 fat containing foods. I have extracted
all foods containing greater than 1% linolenic fatty acid from the USDA
Nutrient database.

The page is 113 kB, with 116 foods listed.

http://www.interdomain.net.au/~rha/food/omega3.html


If anyone's interested I'll generate a list of foods with a 'healthy'
w-3 to w-6 ratio.



>> Hm Omega plan mentiones butternuts and chia seed -
>> which i don't know - its not in my dictionaries.

Butternuts are white walnuts.

Chia seems to be the herb sage.


>I've never eaten either one, but according to USDA the chia seeds
>have an astonishingly favorable ratio of .8.

The actual herb sage has an even more astonishing ratio of .43.
It only has 1.2 grams per 100 grams though, so you would need to
eat a LOT of it :)

 ...Richard.