date:Feb 12, 2014
oil to better understand its potential for modern food and medicine.
Hempseed oil has a very interesting polyunsaturated fatty acid composition, Fernndez-Arche told Reuters Health in an email, because it has an optimal omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of about 3 to 1.
Her main area of research is natural products and the bioactive compounds they contain.
The researchers examined the fatty acid profile of hempseed oil and found that polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) made up about 75 percent of the o