It has been four years since the Australian government approved hemp as food, and now Hemp Nutrition is possibly going mainstream.
Australian hemp farmers have been struggling to keep up with demand. Woolworths, Australia’s biggest supermarket chain, is all set to stock dozens of their locations with hemp food products. This implies that hemp is shifting from being a specialty product to becoming a regular grocery store item.
Hemp can be a hard sell. Although hemp foods have been available in the health food section of grocery stores for a while, it takes time to convince consumers that they won’t get high by eating it. Hemp is a member of the cannabis sativa family, but it contains little to no measurable amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive ingredient that gives the marijuana high.
Hemp seeds are known as “super seeds” because of their tremendous nutritional content.
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