For weight loss, sabja seeds’ content of dietary fibres promotes the feeling of satiety along with decreasing the absorption of fats and carbohydrates in the body. It also promotes proper functioning of the gut hormones while aiding healthy and consistent weight loss.

Along with weight loss, sabja seeds fibre content are also found to improve metabolic . and cardiovascular health. Research also suggests that sabja seeds contain around 80g of dietary fibre per 100g of seeds .

The dietary fibre under discussion is found to be soluble which helps in controlling appetite, slowing of the digestion of food and regulation of bowel movement.

3. Uncontrolled Appetite? Try Sabja Seeds!

As already discussed, sabja seeds are rich in soluble dietary fibre and around 100g of sweet basil seeds provide 80g dietary fibre. Sabja seeds soaked in water absorbs approximately 4 times the amount of water as unsoaked seeds.

When soaked, sabja seeds swell to around 20-40% their original size and convert in the form of a gel-like substance. Consuming this gel before meals help in appetite control thereby reducing calorie intake.

It also slows down prior to meals helps in appetite control and reduces subsequent calorie intake. It slows down the activity of digestive enzymes, improves blood sugar control and regulates gut hormones to send satiety signals to the brain.

According to a study published in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine 2016 to determine whether dietary fibre content in sabja seeds help in weight loss in non alcoholic fatty liver disease patients. it was revealed that consumption of sabja seeds led to significant decrease in body weight, fat mass, and BMI.

4. Sabja Seeds Help in Normalizing Blood Sugar

We all know that serious health conditions like diabetes and insulin resistance are aftermaths of obesity, which when developed affect the blood sugar making it a never-ending process.

The gel formed by sabja seeds which we discussed in the above section is known to slow down the action of carbohydrate degrading enzymes, which leads to slow breakdown of carbohydrates in the diet which subsequently releases glucose slowly in the bloodstream.

According to a research published in Biomed and Pharmacotherapy 2016, showed that sabja seeds have the potential to lower the blood sugar levels in the body.

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