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The Benefits of Sprouts

1/22/2022

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Here's a quote by Dona Bradley, CSNN director in Nanaimo about the power of sprouts:
Sprouts represent the point of greatest vitality in the life cycle of a plant.  During sprouting, vitamin and enzyme content increases dramatically.  The sprouting process predigests the nutrients of the seed, legume or grain, making it easier to assimilate and metabolize.

Here's 10 Things About Sprouts:
  1. Sprouts are easier to digest than beans or seeds.
  2. Sprouts are cooling foods.
  3. Sprouts detoxify the body especially the liver.
  4. Sprouts support the kidneys, large intestine and stomach.
  5. Sprouts are tonifying for the blood.
  6. Broccoli sprouts contain a concentrated source of sulforaphane which is an anti-cancer compound.
  7. 1 once of broccoli sprouts contains more suforaphane than two pounds of broccoli.
  8. In the process of sprouting, seeds attain higher levels of protein, sugar, enzymes, hormones, vitamin C, and some B vitamins.
  9. Sprouts are low in fat and calories.
  10. To ensure the environment is not contaminated it is better to make your own sprouts than to buy them.  It's also much cheaper!

​SOURCE: ​The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia, ​Rebecca Wood, Penguin Books, New York, 2010.
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