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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Savor production of iHeart Radio. I'm

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Speaker 1: Annie Reese and I'm Lauren voc obaum, and today we're

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Speaker 1: talking about chia and chia seeds, yes, which a lot

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Speaker 1: of you have suggested. Um, and I couple years ago

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Speaker 1: I went on this huge like chia seeds phase. I

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Speaker 1: was putting them in everything. I was putting them in

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Speaker 1: as a substitute for eggs. But it kind of fizzled out. However, Um,

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Speaker 1: as some of you listeners know, as Laurence certainly knows,

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Speaker 1: throughout this pandemic, I have acquired more snacks than I

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Speaker 1: normally have. Yeah, like people giving me things or just

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Speaker 1: the point where it was a health hazard when I

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Speaker 1: would open my pantry and like things would fall out,

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Speaker 1: and I kept putting it off, like I just kept thinking,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a miserable experience. I bet something's

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Speaker 1: share share, just anxiety about it. Yeah. Yeah, But a

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Speaker 1: couple of weekends ago, I had somebody over for the

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Speaker 1: first time in a year like that isn't like super

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Speaker 1: close to me, so I felt like I did have

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Speaker 1: to clean up. Um, and I was cleaning out. I

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Speaker 1: uncovered so many things, over a hundred couzies for sure.

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Speaker 1: Uh definitely something was broken and it was a tail

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Speaker 1: password I got injured. Oh I found a packet of cheas. Oh. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I also found some sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds and

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Speaker 1: chima okay I had Yeah, well cool, mm hmm. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's my recent chia experience. That is your your arrands

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Speaker 1: for a very seedy future. That sounds terrible. I I

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Speaker 1: have never really gotten in on the chia seed trend.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever used them at home. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I don't. I mean, not for any particular reason.

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Speaker 1: I think I just kind of saw the trend happening

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Speaker 1: because it was quite intense for a few years there,

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Speaker 1: and kind of went like me, uh that that just

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Speaker 1: just total noncommittal, like I I don't care about this,

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Speaker 1: and people care so much about it that I care

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Speaker 1: less sort of sort of thing, which isn't a very

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Speaker 1: useful human emotion, but none. Nonetheless, it was one that

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Speaker 1: I was experiencing, but but doing this research I'm I'm inspired.

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Speaker 1: Maybe go out and find some girls home, get some

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Speaker 1: little sprouts going perhaps, Oh yeah, I've got some good ones. Okay,

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Speaker 1: as we shall talk about later in the episode. But

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Speaker 1: I suppose this brings us to our question. Yes, chia,

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Speaker 1: what is it? Well? Chia is an herbaceous plant that

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Speaker 1: is soft stemmed and smallish in the Salvia genus within

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Speaker 1: the mint family. A couple different species are referred to

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Speaker 1: as chia botanical names Salvia Hispanica and Salvia colombarre a. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go with that. They are related to stuff

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Speaker 1: like sage and time, but are less aromatic and more

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Speaker 1: commonly used as a small green like like sprouts. Like

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Speaker 1: other sprouts are used or for their seeds. The plants

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Speaker 1: can grow to about a meter tall around three feet

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Speaker 1: and produce these small white and purple or or white

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Speaker 1: maturity in bunches of four. In those papery little flower

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Speaker 1: less pointy. They're technically the whole fruit of the chia

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Speaker 1: plant um. Unlike fleshy fruits like say, apples, the outer

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Speaker 1: inseparable from the single inner seed of the fruit. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: those seeds come in up neutral shades like white to brown,

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Speaker 1: The seeds also produce a lot of goo when you

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Speaker 1: get them wet, like a like a tiny edible gremlin

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Speaker 1: although gremlins also produce a lot of good when you

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Speaker 1: why chia is a great seedling for small indoor decorative

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Speaker 1: or decorative project. UM and Yes, you can harvest your

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Speaker 1: chia pets for for your sandwiches or smoothies. We our

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Speaker 1: Food Show, despite evidence. I've never thought of it as fur,

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Speaker 1: Scenario yeah uh huh um. Back to the muselage. Culinarily,

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Speaker 1: special effects type things. Sure? Yeah? Oh man, where I

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Speaker 1: miss our video series? Where's so gross? Right? Where is Tyler?

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Speaker 1: And are like time laps? Extreme close up camera? Rig?

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Speaker 1: Where we just spent hours watching honey drip with that

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Speaker 1: The seeds are more calorie dns. They're oily, with good

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Speaker 1: protein and fiber plus a smattering of minerals. Cheese seeds

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Speaker 1: acids in plants that human people eat, like even better

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Speaker 1: protein than corn or wheat, or rice or cunua. They

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Speaker 1: diseases and conditions heart disease and cancer for example. And

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Speaker 1: that mucilage can help soothe the digestive tract um, slow

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Speaker 1: they contain another compound um that that will reduce mineral

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Speaker 1: and that that muselage is also furthermore, furthermore being investigated

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Speaker 1: A single seed can absorb twelve times it's weight in water.

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Speaker 1: UM Apparently sprouted chia displays are part of springtime celebrations

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Speaker 1: You made it um And yeah, we're going to cover

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Speaker 1: Chia seeds originated in the Essential and South America's um

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Speaker 1: early Mesoamerican people's cultivated chia seeds, prizing them for their

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Speaker 1: well this also sounds like a wonderful cheese tradition. Yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: uh no cheese left behind this. I'm so happy to hear. Yes.

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