Healthy Foods Ltd 100% Natural Raw Chia Seeds

Chia is an edible seed from the desert plant Salvia, a member of the mint family that grows abundantly in southern Mexico. Chia is familiar to most of us as a seed used for the novelty of the Chia Pet, clay animals with sprouted Chia seeds covering their bodies.
Little is known, however, of the seed’s tremendous nutritional value and medicinal properties. For centuries this tiny little seed was used as a staple food by the Indians of the southwest and Mexico. Known as the running food, its use as a high-energy endurance food has been recorded as far back as the ancient Aztecs. It was said the Aztec warriors subsisted on the Chia seed during the conquests. The Indians of the southwest would eat as little as a teaspoon full when going on a 24hr—forced march. Indians running from the Colorado River to the California coast to trade turquoise for seashells would only bring the Chia seed for nourishment