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Sprouts: A Garden in Your Kitchen

Dec 19th, 2012 | By
Sprouts: A Garden in Your Kitchen

If the sight of your barren winter garden makes you melancholy, take heart. Even when six inches of snow covers your yard, you can grow food indoors with almost no effort at all. Sprouting isn’t technically gardening because no soil is involved, but this simple technique does allow you to produce fresh greens all winter long. The Benefits Of Sprouting Dry grains, seeds, and legumes contain enzyme inhibitors, which maintain a dormant state until they are softened in water. These foods also contain phytic acid and other toxins to discourage animals from eating them. In
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All About Sprouts

Apr 19th, 2012 | By
All About Sprouts

Sprouts have long haunted the refrigerated sections of health food stores and the insides of vegetarian sandwiches. Those who have been eating sprouts for years know how great they are for your health. When beans are allowed to sprout, enzymes that were dormant are released, creating a healthier product. Sprouts also have protein, vitamins, fiber, and anti-oxidants. You can make sprouts yourself, and it’s easy! You need just a few inexpensive items that you probably have around the house and some beans and seeds. It requires very little effort and just a few days to
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Sprouts: A Genuine Super Food

Nov 29th, 2010 | By
Sprouts: A Genuine Super Food

Sprouts are tasty, nutritious, and versatile, from their familiar use in salads to baking sprouted-grain breads to making excellent quick snacks by the handful. Their virtues were discovered by the Chinese millennia ago and modern research continues to uncover their benefits. Legumes such as beans, peas, and soybeans provide fiber, folate and protease inhibitors, all
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Sprouts: The Ultimate Kitchen Garden

Nov 15th, 2010 | By
Sprouts: The Ultimate Kitchen Garden

There’s a wealth of plants that can be usefully sprouted besides the usual suspects of alfalfa and mung beans. Among others, you can sprout almond, buckwheat, cabbage, chickpeas, clover, fenugreek, flax, millet, oat groats, quinoa, radish, sesame, sunflower, wheat and wild rice. Sprouting is compact and portable. Whether you’re already developing your land-living skills or
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