date:Feb 12, 2014
s of China, Japan, Canada, and the United States, write Maria Angeles Fernndez-Arche, a pharmacology researcher at the University of Seville, and her colleagues.
In addition to a 3,000-year track record in the manufacture of cloth and paper, hemp has long history as a food and folk medicine, they point out in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Hempseed is known to have high levels of vitamins A, C and E, minerals and fiber, the researchers say. But they wanted to analyze hempseed