There is an increasing demand for nutritive and healthy foods in the market and this fact has led the food industry to focus their research in products of this nature. Flaxseed oil is a polyunsaturated oil extracted from the flax plant (Linum usitatissimim) rich in α-linolenic acid (ALA), the essential fatty acid omega (ω)-3, which represents about 57% of its total fatty acids. The high content of n-3 fatty acid present in this oil allows the attribution of functional food, which means that besides the nutritional functions, its consumption may have beneficial effects on health