Hi, I have Chronic Gastritis and IBS, I have problems with full seeds like Chia seeds, when I eat them I'm getting realy strong constipation to the point where I can vomit, ends up with diarhea for hours. When I grind chia seeds with my coffee grinder to almost dust I'm perfectly fine after eating them. Ofcourse not raw, I mean I add them to my oat meal.
Once I bought psyllium husk powder (just grinded seeds to dust), and later I ordered full seeds because they were 3 times less expensive. I though I will be able to grind them to dust with coffee grinder that I'm using for chia seeds and all other stuff. But it just doesn't want to grind them, I tried also pulsating method :/.
I tried mortar and it just made them flat, I tried meat grinder and it just spilled up full seeds.
I searched in google for some information and found machine for grinding grains but on videos I see they are not making a powder, it's just cut to really smaller chunks which is not what I want to achieve.
Do you have any idea how to grind those bastards to dust?
Image of them:
https://www.nutsinbulk.ie/files/items/seeds/Psyllium_Seeds.jpg
by KajiTora
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Have you tried boiling them? Does that soften them up?
Maybe boil first and add that to your oatmeal. Or boil, then lightly bake to dry them out, then pulverize. I imagine the boil+bake could make the seeds brittle.
But have you checked the fiber content of the whole seeds? Won’t it be less fiber per tablespoon than just the husks? Per gram of fiber, is there really a cost savings?