I eat ungodly amounts of flax because it makes for cheap calories, has as much magnesium as a supplement (in 66g of flax), and it’s a cool flex when other healthy minded people ask about what I do for Omega 3 if I don’t eat fish. It’s getting mildly ridiculous how much I can hide in smoothies so I want to check that this isn’t bad for me. I eat about 7 grams of ALA in two smoothies (33g of flax each time) and the rest of the ALA comes from kale and other foods.
I’m not concerned with the cyanide [influence from that much flax](https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs00204-015-1479-8/MediaObjects/204_2015_1479_Fig3_HTML.gif) (33g at a time. I am assuming it will act about like the 30.9g from that chart). I don’t know how almond fares alone, but [this chart](https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs00204-015-1479-8/MediaObjects/204_2015_1479_Fig3_HTML.gif) shows that almonds paired with other cyanide raising foods does impact cyanide levels pretty well too, with only 10g of almonds – about a rounded tablespoon).
Seeing as how people commonly consume more than 10g of almonds at a time in snacks, almond butter, or as almond flour; I’d personally predict >10g (say like eating 1/4 a cup or 1/2 cup) of almonds would probably par right up with 30.9g of flax (or surpass it) in terms of cyanide influence. I haven’t heard of there being a cap on almonds due to health concerns about cyanide but perhaps I”m wrong
Sources for those charts:
[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Concentration-time-curves-of-cyanide-in-whole-blood-after-ingestion-of-different-foods_fig2_272843365](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Concentration-time-curves-of-cyanide-in-whole-blood-after-ingestion-of-different-foods_fig2_272843365)
[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00204-015-1479-8](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00204-015-1479-8)
Anyway, have you caught sight of any research that motivates you to not eat too much flax based ALA, non cyanide related?
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