Advice on sprouting:

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What can you grow from seed when the days are cold, dark and short? Answer: bean sprouts!
Some seed varieties produce roots with amazingly fuzzy white hairs that appear in a mass. (Radish and broccoli are good examples.) These white roots are natural and are not mold or fungus.
They’re packed with vitamins and nutrients, good for your health and fighting off those pesky colds that abound in cities in winter.
After your sprouts are the desired length, they should be placed in the refrigerator 6-8 hours after your last rinse.
A huge variety of seeds can easily be grown to eat as sprouts including radish, pea, chick pea, mung beans, alfalfa, fenugreek, sunflower, lentil, and broccoli.
It is best to eat them within one week for optimum freshness. After that first week they will start to decline and lose nutrients and flavor.
Many dried pulses like mung beans or chick peas from the supermarket or health food shop will sprout just as well at a fraction of the cost.
How many seeds should you use in the sprouter? For small seeded varieties (alfalfa, broccoli, Sandwich Mix, etc.), use 1 ½ tablespoons. For larger seeded items (like beans and wheat berries), use 2 tablespoons.
Self-made sprouter: bottle with piece of old shirt instead, attached with an elastic band
Pre-soaking seeds in water before placing them in the tray will allow them to plump up a bit so they’ll be less likely to fall through lids with small holes.
You should be aware that, like some other foods (oysters for example), sprouts have on occasion been the source of Ecoli and Salmonella food poisoning (carried inside the seeds).
Are the seed roots supposed to go through the floor of the tray? Yes, this is common. Roots are programmed to move downwards and naturally seek out the slits because they are looking for the path of least resistance. The slits in the tray allow for water drainage and air circulation that is important for healthy root development.
One should always cook sprouted chickpeas before eating them – steam, boil or add them to soup, for example. The reason she gave is that they contain some chemical when raw that is harmful to humans.
Sprouting is essentially a raw food diet consumed for better health and aids weight loss.
Add sprouts to your salad, will give the salad an extra nutty angle
You can sprout peas, ground nuts, barley, wheat, carrot seeds, radish seeds, Lima beans, garbanzo beans and more.
Put them in a bowl add lemon juice sprinkle black salt (rock salt) add dash of chillie pwd add roasted cumin and coriander pwd add crushed peanuts(opt) chat pwd (Indian flavors) mix well a
Sprouts contain 100 % more protein, fiber and goodness than eating raw fruits and vegetables.
If you see a fuzzy, gelatinous growth around young sprouts, that’s a type of water mold that specifically thrives on seeds and wet conditions.
Consuming a cup of sprouts can reduce hair fall, slow the process of aging, and reduce gastronomical troubles, effective against constipation and ulcers.
Carrots sown thickly in a tray and then harvested for the leaves when an inch or two high – good added to salads. This would be a quick and easy way to get the leaves. The problem with carrots from seeds is they take so long to germinate; you can trick the seeds by putting them in the freezer for a couple of hours then take them out to imitate the start of spring. Also the outside of the seed is super hard so you can lightly use some sand paper on them, but don’t go crazy.
It would be beneficial to add a generous portion of healthy and nutritious sprouts to your regular diet.
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