Well flax seeds are a good example though. Flax is supposed to be the "richest" source of lignans. Yet I'm pretty sure it has nowhere NEAR the amounts in the sesamin products.
I'm pretty sure that sesame doesn't have like a thousand times more lignan content than flax, lol
as flax is supposed to be like 100 times greater in lignan content than most other plants.
Just not getting it dudes.
I saw a product...i think it's called limenlife or somethng like that which is a concentrated flax lignan thing supposed to be about 50 mgs of lignan for a 250 mg dose. So do the math. This is not an oil, it is supposed to be virtually fat free. Yet you'd need 4 doses of that to get the "lignanS" amount that these standardized sesame oils have of ONE lignan in ONE serving.
In this book called Fatty Acids in Foods and Their Health Implications, I read this estimation of sesamin content in oils. The sesamin content in oilds from dehulled and coated seeds ranged from 5800 to 6490 mg/kg. Again, the math just ain't working.