sprouts vs micro-greens

[delmar]

Which plants do you prefer to grow as sprouts and which plants do you prefer to grow as micro-greens and why?

[michigan roman]

sunseeds as micros because they taste awesome . i buy the type sold as bird food and broadcast / rake soil over , then cover with a frame i built of 2 x 6 on edge about 2 ' x 3 ' , i stapled hardware cloth over it to create a frame with screening that squirrels cant get to sunflower seeds through . when sprouts get about 4" theyre great , great salad add

[delmar]

I have been sprouting, millet, flax, clover, and some radish seeds. Which of these would work well to grow into micro-greens. I also have Quinoa and Amaranth seeds on order and am getting ready to order some broccoli seeds soon. Which of those to you suppose would be good as micro-greens.
I am fairly certain that clover would need to be juiced to get much food value out of it if it were grown much beyond the sprout stage, is that correct?

[delmar]

sunseeds as micros because they taste awesome . i buy the type sold as bird food and broadcast / rake soil over , then cover with a frame i built of 2 x 6 on edge about 2 ' x 3 ' , i stapled hardware cloth over it to create a frame with screening that squirrels cant get to sunflower seeds through . when sprouts get about 4" theyre great , great salad addNow that is what I'm talking about.
I am going to need to devise something like that to keep the critters out of my plants as well!

[Living Food]

Which plants do you prefer to grow as sprouts and which plants do you prefer to grow as micro-greens and why?

Sprouts: Quinoa, amaranth, sesame, nuts, millet, buckwheat.
Micro-greens: Sunflower, pea, cereal grains, weed sprouts, most greens.

I eat the sprouts for the calories and the micro-greens for the amazing nutrition. Sprouts also have massive nutritional value, but even that pales next to the micro-greens.


I have been sprouting, millet, flax, clover, and some radish seeds. Which of these would work well to grow into micro-greens. I also have Quinoa and Amaranth seeds on order and am getting ready to order some broccoli seeds soon. Which of those to you suppose would be good as micro-greens.
I am fairly certain that clover would need to be juiced to get much food value out of it if it were grown much beyond the sprout stage, is that correct?

Flax makes a great micro-green, almost as good as chia. Clover and radish can also be grown as micro-greens. You might be able to eat quinoa and amaranth micro-greens (since you can eat the leaves), but I've never done it and prefer to just eat them as sprouts. I've also never grown broccoli as a micro-green (I'm not sure if you can), but broccoli sprouts are amazing enough. The green sprouts are fairly close to micro-greens in nutritional quality.


I am fairly certain that clover would need to be juiced to get much food value out of it if it were grown much beyond the sprout stage, is that correct?

All micro-greens should be juiced, that way you can extract the maximum nutrition from them. Eating them is much less efficient in terms of the nutrition you get, and blending them is also inferior to juicing.

[delmar]

All micro-greens should be juiced, that way you can extract the maximum nutrition from them. Eating them is much less efficient in terms of the nutrition you get, and blending them is also inferior to juicing.
So would it be fair to say that one of the advantages to sprouts over micr-greens, from the same plant, is that you can skip the juicing process?

[MysticTree]

You'll extract maximum nutrition from pretty much everything (fruit,veg,greens, micro greens,sprouts etc) better if you juice it rather than eat it so why apply this so specifically to micro greens?

[delmar]

I guess I sort of thought that the main reason to juice is to to get the nutrition from a lot more veggies than you could ever eat.That and to take advantage of plants like grasses that you can't really digest without juicing. I could be wrong but I never thought I was not taking full advantage of an apple by just eating it. I don't see any chunks of apple in my poo. I do realize that corn can be a different story.

[MysticTree]

I guess I sort of thought that the main reason to juice is to to get the nutrition from a lot more veggies than you could ever eat.That and to take advantage of plants like grasses that you can't really digest without juicing. I could be wrong but I never thought I was not taking full advantage of an apple by just eating it. I don't see any chunks of apple in my poo. I do realize that corn can be a different story.

My previous response was in reply to Living Food but having to use my mobile which won't let me quote posts.

[Living Food]

I don't juice fruit (It's easy enough to digest, and I don't think fruit juice is a very good thing due to the high sugar content and very little fiber), but when it comes to vegetables you miss out on a large portion of the nutrients locked up in the cell walls if you just eat them. Most of the "vegetables" we eat really shouldn't be eaten raw bercause they're very difficult to digest, but I'm not going to get into that because this site is about eating a raw food diet that includes those foods. Leafy greens and sprouts are fine to eat raw, but juicing them allows you to get far more nutrition out of them with a minimal expenditure of energy. It does allow you to eat more then you could otherwise, but you also get far more nutrition out of what you juice also.

Blending also breaks down the cell walls of tough-to-digest foods, but destroys many more nutrients in the process then a slow speed masticating juicer.

[MysticTree]

you could just have said "yes"!

[Revvell]

... juicing them allows you to get far more nutrition out of them with a minimal expenditure of energy.

Personally, I think the more juicing we do, the less we use our digestive systems (which are made to be used), the lazier our systems become! It's like always wearing shoes.... our feet and their support system weaken.

I'm not against juicing yet, so much on this site now is about juicing and weakening ourselves. Yes, we seem to extract more nutrition (is that REALLY true since the more air the more oxygenation)....

For me, I'll eat my food; keep my digestive system strong, including my teeth and jaws.

I blend occasionally and keep the fiber which our systems (still with the digestive system here) strong as well.

So, eat/chew first, blend second, juice third.

People do most things for the moment.... look to the future. If you've got a disaster and your digestive system is weakened by all the juicing... you may not have electricity to juice.... then, your system is going to have to learn how to work again ~ how to actually digest what you take in.

It's like all this anti-bacterial soaps people are using. They're constantly weakening themselves.

So, that's my view!

[MysticTree]

Personally, I think the more juicing we do, the less we use our digestive systems (which are made to be used), the lazier our systems become! It's like always wearing shoes.... our feet and their support system weaken.

I'm not against juicing yet, so much on this site now is about juicing and weakening ourselves. Yes, we seem to extract more nutrition (is that REALLY true since the more air the more oxygenation)....

For me, I'll eat my food; keep my digestive system strong, including my teeth and jaws.

I blend occasionally and keep the fiber which our systems (still with the digestive system here) strong as well.

So, eat/chew first, blend second, juice third.

People do most things for the moment.... look to the future. If you've got a disaster and your digestive system is weakened by all the juicing... you may not have electricity to juice.... then, your system is going to have to learn how to work again ~ how to actually digest what you take in.

It's like all this anti-bacterial soaps people are using. They're constantly weakening themselves.

So, that's my view!

just eating doesn't have any sort of cache. Other things are different, exciting and cost money - heaven forbid that we just do what our bodies are designed to do!