Serving Ideas:
- delicious condiment to brown rice, pasta, corn on a cob, popcorns
- healthy salt to sprinkle to any dish like pasta, salads, hot cereal, vegetables
- add it to salad dressings and marinades
- to anything and everything that calls the need for salt
Ground black sesame seeds, unprocessed sea salt.
Health Benefits:
Remineralizing seasoning of the macrobiotic diet, lowering sodium intake while retaining nutrients from black sesame seeds. Reduced sodium intake potentially helps in lowering the blood pressure, thus reducing the risk of developing heart diseases like heart failure and stroke, risk of osteoporosis, kidney disease, and stomach cancer.
Like the original Gomasio, black gomasio also contains lignans, sesamin, sesamol, and sesamolin. These antioxidants help keep vascular health, prevent hypertension and other blood-related diseases, diabetes, and cancer. It neutralizes acidity in the blood and increases immunity. It also has lecithin that helps keep cholesterol at bay and helps boost memory.
It is a rich source of calcium and iron. The same provision as the original gomasio, 10%, and 8% respectively of the daily requirement. The trace mineral, iodine, is also present in this condiment. This is essential for the thyroid gland and its metabolic functions.
It aids as well in the digestive system, helping with the absorption of the food we eat, with the immediate boost in energy, and has healing properties that help relieve stomach cramps, prevent dehydration, promotes the production of milk for breastfeeding mothers, stop headaches and hearing problems, relieves fatigue, and sober up.
Average Nutritional Values (serving size 3 g) | Per serving 1 tsp |
Calories | 20 | * |
Total Fat | 1.5 g | 2% |
Sodium | 80 mg | 3% |
Total Carbohydrates | 1 g | 0% |
Dietary Fiber | 0 g | 0% |
Sugars | 0 g | |
Protein | 1 g | 2% |
Potassium | 10 mg | 0% |
Vitamin D | 0% |
Iron | 0% |
Calcium | 2% |
*Percent values are based on a 2000-calorie diet.
Refrigerate after opening.
Store in a cool & dry place.