Should you’re unaware of the virtues of chia seeds in your weight loss program, prepare for a tasty introduction.
Santa Claran Mindy Park has launched Yummi Chia, a startup providing a healthful, all-organic pudding product of chia seeds, coconut milk, contemporary fruit, flavorings and a no-cal monk fruit extract as sweetener.
“Yummi Chia is scrumptious and wholesome for our physique and soul,” mentioned Park. “I need to assist shift individuals to consuming more healthy.”
In case you’re scratching your head, chia seeds are the nutritious, edible seeds of a flowering, desert plant within the mint household. Their well being advantages embrace gluten-free excessive fiber and protein content material, plus omega-3 fatty acids and varied nutritional vitamins and minerals.
The oval seeds—smaller than a sesame seed— are a mottled grey, black or white. When soaked in a liquid, they soak up many instances their weight, giving them a gelatinous coating just like tapioca. (Warning is suggested to stop choking if consuming greater than a sprinkling of dry chia seeds.)
On their very own, chia seeds are bland. It’s what you mix them with that makes them tasty. Yummi Chia, in 5.5-ounce pudding parts, has 4 flavors: blueberry, strawberry, coconut with vanilla bean, and (after all!) chocolate—bitter, darkish chocolate.
Park, a 2009 graduate of the Skilled Culinary Institute in Campbell, believes that nutritious meals is crucial to good well being and combating viruses akin to COVID—and that it may be scrumptious.
“It tastes nice so long as you set the fitting elements collectively to make it scrumptious,” mentioned Park. “And on the identical time, it’s very wholesome for you.”
Those that taste-tested Yummi Chia, had been stunned {that a} sugar-free, chia pudding might style so good.
“Sugar-free merchandise have an aftertaste, however mine doesn’t,” mentioned Park, lauding Yummi Chia pudding as excellent for busy, on-the-go individuals who don’t have a number of time to arrange meals.
“It’s a fast, grab-and-go snack you don’t should really feel responsible about consuming,” mentioned Park, who has pivoted from her MCourse bakery partnership along with her twin, Megan Park, to deal with Yummi Chia.
Chia (the traditional Mayan phrase for “power”) is an annual herb, rising to virtually six toes. It’s believed to originate in Central America and Mexico.
Chia seeds hit the U.S. market within the Eighties, arriving as novelty chia pets—a terracotta figurine lined in a sticky paste of chia seeds. When watered, the seeds sprout, giving the figurine the look of a fur-covered animal.
Pre-order Yummi Chia, which launched Nov. 1, at www.yummichia.com. Choose up orders on Sundays, 3 p.m.- 5 p.m., exterior Yummi Chia’s Santa Clara business kitchen at 1614 Pomeroy Ave. Park intends on increasing to farmers’ markets and retail meals markets.
“Well being is wealth,” mentioned Park, who got here to the U.S. from Korea along with her dad and mother, Bae and Nameson Park, when she was one and was raised in Salinas. “Nothing is extra necessary than an individual’s well being.”