奇異籽（chia seed）真的會致癌嗎？

網上有傳世界衛生組織報告多食奇異子(chia seed)會導致肝癌，是真的嗎？

想買給爸媽所以Google了一下。

Chia seeds are rich in alpha lineic acid (or ALA) which is an Omega-3 fatty acid. Recently in 2013, the Journal of Molecular Biochemistry found that ALA limited the growth of cancer cells in both breast and cervical cancers.

They also found that it caused cell death of the cancer cells without harming the normal healthy cells. While more research still needs to be done to find out the deeper implications of ALA on other types of cancer, this is a great discovery for women struggling with these increasingly common types of cancer.(http://www.jmolbiochem.com/index.php/JmolBiochem/article/view/52)

There are very few side effects associated with chia seeds. There has been some conflicting research about the effect of chia seeds on prostate cancer. A study done with ALA and prostate cancer (http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/07/09/jnci.djt174.abstract) showed that this fatty acid could increase the risk of prostate cancer, but this study was later shown to have some bias.

And according to a recent study in 2010, ALA not only did not increase prostate cancer risk, but actually decreased the risk in participants. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19921446)

不請自來。

利益相關：食品科學博士，兼職開了個雜糧網店，減肥、降血糖、降血脂的最優雜糧組合。

將該組合用於雜糧飯、雜糧麵食粉、雜糧麵條的生產。

這個周末正在研發新產品，看到這個問題，來答一下。

答案：不會致癌。

理由：有仨

（1）沒有查到WHO發布過類似報告

（2）中國已經批准將其用於食品，美國FDA也早已批准。

（3）國內外不少衛生機構做過chia seeds致癌或致畸性的檢測，都發現不會致癌

結論：放心吃，沒啥問題。

備註：但是不建議減肥的人，天天只吃這這一種東西。

每天都吃雜一點，營養更全面。

奇亞籽原產於北美洲墨西哥和瓜地馬拉地區，食用歷史有3500多年了。如今在美國、日本、澳大利亞和歐洲已經很暢銷了。美國是2005年通過奇亞籽的安全認證的，歐盟2009年批准奇亞籽為安全食品，我國2014年批准奇亞籽為新食品原料，可以放心吃的。