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Sprouts and microgreens are novel functional food sources with great potential for sustainably diversifying global food systems, promoting human health, and facilitating the access of a steadily growing urban population to fresh microscale vegetables. These novel food sources have vivid colours, exciting textures, and diverse flavours and tastes, and they can be purchased here at Hidden Farm or even home-grown for daily harvesting as needed. Furthermore, due to their short growth cycle, these nutrient-dense food sources can be produced with minimal input, without using pesticides; hence, they have low environmental impacts and a broad acceptance among health-conscious consumers. Furthermore, as sprouts and microgreens are usually consumed raw, there is hardly a loss or degradation of heat-sensitive micronutrients or vitamins through food processing.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8877763/?#sec7-plants-11-00571

Sprouted seeds and microgreens are often more nutrient-dense than ungerminated seeds or mature vegetables. Due to their short growth cycle, nutrient-dense sprouts and microgreens can be produced with minimal input; without pesticides, they can even be home-grown and harvested as needed, hence having low environmental impacts and a broad acceptance among health-conscious consumers.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8877763/?utm

These miniature leafy salad crops pack a lot of nutritionally beneficial and flavoursome goodies into a small space. Seedlings of plants such as beetroot, radish, rocket, basil and coriander come in many shades of red and green. They give a real zing to a dish with their distinctive flavours and contain biologically active compounds, such as glucosinolates and polyphenols, that are known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/2023/09/12/microgreens-the-health-giving-shoots-explained/?utm

Microgreens garner immense potential for improving the nutritional value of the human diet, considering their high content of healthy compounds.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339772981_Microgreen_nutrition_food_safety_and_shelf_life_A_review?utm

Certain microgreens are rich in potassium, calcium, iron, and zinc. Eight species studied had high potassium levels, and four species—scallion, red cabbage, amaranth, and Genovese basil—were good sources of calcium.

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/select-microgreens-custom-diet-may-help-deliver-desired-nutrients?utm