Currently, consumers and food companies have become increasingly concerned about nutritive and healthy foods. This fact has led the food industry to focus on the production, consumption, and research of functional foods. These foods can act as stress busters in modern life by eliminating free radicals, weight control, preventing degenerative diseases, and slowing the aging process (Kahlon & Keagy, 2003). Flaxseed oil is polyunsaturated oil extracted from the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum) and is rich in α-linolenic acid (ALA), ω-3 essential fatty acids, which represents about 57% of its total fatty acids. High content of ω-3 fatty acids present in the oil confers functionality to foods, indicating that consumption of flaxseed oil may have beneficial effects on health, such as promoting eye health, development of brain and nervous system in infants, reducing the risk of hypertension, cancer, improving intelligence and memory, inhibition of aging, reduction of inflammatory bowel diseases and coronary heart disease, preventing neurodegenerative disorders, and controlling diabetes (Cardoso, Dantas, Espeschit, Martino,