Once you know a food is good for you you start to salivate when you are ready to eat it even when it tastes bitter like dandelion greens.
I always feel happy drinking barley grass juice it is bitter but the rewards in wellbeing are unsurpassed

The Sproutarian Man Wrote:
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> Red cabbage microgreens contained an average of
> 11.5 mg/100 g of beta carotene FW which is
> approximately 260-fold more than the value (0.044
> mg/100 g FW) reported for mature red cabbage
> leaves - source = Lester et al
>
> and
>
> vitamin K1 concentration in mature amaranth,
> basil, and red cabbage were 1.14, 0.41, and 0.04
> ?g/g FW, respectively, which were much lower than
> the values for their corresponding microgreens
> (4.09, 3.20, and 2.77 ?g/g FW, respectively) -
> source = Lester et al
>
> and
>
> The vitamin C concentration of red cabbage
> microgreens (147.0 mg/100 g FW) was 6-fold higher
> than previously published data for mature red
> cabbage (24.4 mg/100 g FW) - source = Lester et
> al
>
> and
>
> Garnet amaranth (131.6 mg/100 g FW) had much
> higher ascorbic acid content than reported
> concentration of mature leaf (11.6?45.3 mg/100 g
> FW) - source = Lester et al
>
> and
>
> Therefore, it was suggested that fresh microgreens
> are generally good to excellent sources of
> ascorbic acid and likely more concentrated with
> TAA than their mature plant counterparts, which is
> in accordance with the findings of Bergquist et al
> on baby spinach: that younger plants had higher
> ascorbic acid content than older harvested leaves
> - source = Lester et al
>
> and
>
> Compared with fully developed cilantro leaves,
> cilantro seedlings contained 3- fold more
> ?-carotene - source = Lester et al
>
> and
>
> cilantro had the highest lutein/zeaxanthin levels
> (carotene family) with 10.1 mg/100 g FW. Red
> sorrel, red cabbage, and garnet amaranth
> microgreens followed with lutein/zeaxanthin
> concentrations of 8.8, 8.6, and 8.4 mg/100 g FW,
> respectively. These values were higher than that
> of mature spinach (7.2 mg/100 g FW), which
> contains high quantities of lutein/zeaxanthin -
> source Lester et al
>
> and another classic
>
> the values of lutein/zeaxanthin in raw mature
> cilantro and red cabbage were 0.9 and 0.3 mg/100 g
> FW, respectively, which contrasted with the more
> abundant
> concentrations in their microgreen counterparts,
> which had 11.2 and 28.6 times greater
> lutein/zeaxanthin concentrations, respectively.
> These findings suggest that these immature leaves
> of the microgreens tend to possess higher
> lutein/zeaxanthin concentration than their fully
> grown plant counterparts - source = Lester et al
>
> and
>
> The maximum concentration of violaxanthin in
> cilantro microgreens was more than 5-fold than
> that of mature cilantro leaves (1.4 mg/100 g FW)
> and 2.8 times than that of mature spinach (2.7
> mg/100 g FW), both of which are considered as good
> sources of violaxanthin - source = Lester et al
>
> and
>
> 22/25 microgreens assayed possessed violaxanthin
> concentration higher than
> mature cilantro - source = Lester et al
>
> and a real classic
>
> Green daikon radish has extremely high ?- and
> ?-tocopherol contents of 87.4 and 39.4 mg/100 g
> FW, respectively. . Even though the values of
> ?-tocopherol (4.9 mg/100 g FW) and ?-tocopherol
> (3.0 mg/100 g FW) in golden pea tendrils were
> among the lowest of the 25 microgreens, their
> values were still markedly higher than those for
> more mature spinach leaves (2.0 and 0.2 mg/100 g
> FW, respectively). Red cabbage microgreens
> contained over 40 times the vitamin E content of
> its mature counterpart (0.06 mg/100 g FW) -
> source = Lester et al
>
> Yes, daikon radish is probably the world's highest
> source of vitamin E with half as much as wheatgerm
> oil.
>
> and
>
> In general, microgreens contain considerably
> higher concentrations of vitamins and carotenoids
> than their mature plant counterparts
>
> and
>
> Maximum values of vitamin C, viamin K1, and
> vitamin E were found in red cabbage, garnet
> amaranth, and green daikon radish microgreens,
> respectively. In
> terms of carotenoids, cilantro microgreens showed
> the highest concentration of lutein/zeaxanthin and
> violaxanthin and ranked second in ?-carotene
> concentration
>
>
> And lets not forget that post harvest purchases
> can decline in various vitamins and important
> phytochemicals, especially when stored on the
> shelves and put under artificallighting in shops
> etc. AND, the chlorophyll can easily break down
> and oxidise causing free radical damage,but the
> sproutarians don't have to worry about that stuff
> because their dinner is always FRESH.
>
>
> I really like this scientist Gene Lester because
> he always reports stuff that sproutarians LOVE to
> hear. Woot woot.
>
> Never doubt the sprout!!!


So, pretty much, the blood thinning components balance out the potentially blood thickening components.

Throw in a Turmeric root or two and a dash of black pepper along with the microgreens and keep hydrated for a bit of extra added insurance. Nice, simple, and worry free.

With expert supervision even those on blood thinners could do this safely once dosages were worked out and the same quantities of juice were consumed every day in a self disciplined manner.

Dont fall in the deep trap. Microgreens will not make you age slower or do anything for you noticeable except maybe wasting huge amounts of time. Look at the pics of people that eat a heavy micorgreen diet and you'll see that they age just like everybody else except they spent huge amounts of time, same as with sprouts.

Panchito Wrote:
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> Dont fall in the deep trap. Microgreens will not
> make you age slower or do anything for you
> noticeable except maybe wasting huge amounts of
> time. Look at the pics of people that eat a heavy
> micorgreen diet and you'll see that they age just
> like everybody else except they spent huge amounts
> of time, same as with sprouts.


Do you have the pictures to prove that?

Mark Mathew Braunstein.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2015 05:50PM by Panchito.

TSM doesn't exercise or ewven hike mind you, thus he can't deal with sugar. Fruit is for activity, like planting Permaculture Food Forests world wide!

Viktoras...(He always got me fired up about physical immortality).

Viktoras is a really really smart dude.

Yes, I love what comes out of Vik's mouth, believe you me. Apprently he is not immortal and his wife died young of colon cancer, so my infatuation is a bit faded...

Sproutman...:

Panchito Wrote:
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> Mark Mathew Braunstein.
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Thank for the posting. I do not know Mark Mathew Braunstein and it seems like he wrote a lot on microgreens but there is a difference between talking about something and using it.

RawPracticalist wrote:
"there is a difference between talking about something and using it."

What are you saying, he wrote "Radical Vegetarianism" in 1991, and then "Sprout Garden" in 1993, he's been doing it for a lifetime...

NuNativs Wrote:
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> Sproutman...:
>
> [responsibleeatingandliving.com]
> ploads/2011/05/sproutman1.jpg

full body :

NuNativs Wrote:
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> RawPracticalist wrote:
> "there is a difference between talking about
> something and using it."
>
> What are you saying, he wrote "Radical
> Vegetarianism" in 1991, and then "Sprout Garden"
> in 1993, he's been doing it for a lifetime...

You have a point but we should try to find out why microgreens have not work to make look young and healthy.
In my book, the greens alone are not enough, you need to exercise, you need to cleanse and fast periodically, you need other steps.

Microgreens are not enough.
I had been juicing greens for years and my health was fine but not super.
The big change happened when I took the steps to stop eating mostly cooked foods, and went thru a cleansing programs, and added many other necessities such as exercise, meditation, distilled water, and many other small things.
Green juices cannot remove the hardened matter in the digestive system unless you do a long juice fast or go thru a cleansing program. Adding some fermented food or juices was also necessary.

microgreens in the store today.

$54.00 per pound.

fresh Wrote:
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> microgreens in the store today.
>
> $54.00 per pound.


What relevance does this have to do with microgreen nutrition? Sounds more like whoever set that price is trying to rip off customers. Growing yourself is much cheaper anyways. Online I can buy 18 ounces (about 1.2 lbs) of broccoli sprouting seeds for less than $15 and that will provide ~6 lbs of broccoli sprouts. So in other words, 6 lbs of broccoli sprouts for less than $15.

fresh wrote:
"microgreens in the store today.

$54.00 per pound."

You've got to be kidding me, where was that? Gotta grow your own...

oh, yes, thanks for the tip, i am quite aware that one needs to grown their own.

i just thought it was funny that it was 54 dollars per pound.

and where did i say that it had RELEVANCE to nutrition?

is there some requirement for relevance to nutrition, according to you, jtprindl?

perhaps you can check all my posts before i post them. run for moderator.

They are amazing. I just had cilantro microgreens holy rawvioli...

They are heaven on earth.
If you are not eating microgreens you are missing out.