Fresh Facts
Powell River, BC, Canada - Locally Grown Business
Health Fact!
A team of scientists from the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Agriculture analyzed the nutrient composition of 25 commercially available microgreen varieties. They discovered that in general microgreen cotyledon leaves had considerably higher nutritional densities than their mature counterparts (cotyledon leaves refer to the embryonic first leaves of a seedling).
Nutrition Fact!
The Yale study on pea microgreens discovered that the seedlings started to produce large amounts of vitamin K when they were exposed to light. Vitamin K functions as an electron acceptor when chlorophyll – abundant in all green plants including microgreens – absorbs sunlight to produce carbohydrates and oxygen during photosynthesis. The 2012 microgreen study analyzed the levels of phylloquinone (the type of vitamin K produced by plants) in different microgreens, and found the highest levels of vitamin K in amaranth microgreens.
Variety Fact!
There are over 100 different types of microgreens with all different flavours and nutritional content!
From cilantro to lentils, lemongrass to turnip, even beet and wasabi!