With life being extremely fast paced, it is more crucial than ever to ensure that we feed our bodies with the necessary vitamins and nutrients. Many modern supplements are not cost-effective or contain ingredients we can’t even pronounce. The Micro Shooters offers a natural, healthy, affordable way to incorporate nutritious veggies into your diet – and you can grow them yourself! Microgreens are easy to use and suitable for all people including beginner gardeners, and children.

The reward of producing your own crops is in themselves rewarding. Having knowledge of the benefits in your vegetables somehow enhances their taste, and microgreens have a great deal of that. Microgreens are a superfood, meaning they are a concentrated source of nutrients. They contain up to 40 times more vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals than their mature counterparts. Only a small hand full or Tablespoon makes up a vegetable portion.  Microgreens are suitable to eat raw, whereas cooking with high heat can destroy their vitamins and enzymes. Most importantly, when growing your microgreens at home, they will be fresh and still contain all of their natural nutrients. Compared to other vegetables that can lose up to 90% of their vitamins within 24 hours after being harvested, having microgreens fresh off the stem will widely benefit your body.

Microgreens are a great source of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Microgreens might be young, small plants, but they are a giant within the world of nutrition! 

Vitamins: These are organic substances made by plants or animals. Microgreens tend to be rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, and carotenoids (which aren’t vitamins themselves but are used by our body to make vitamin A)

Minerals: These originally come from the earth and water & are then absorbed by plants and stored in their seeds and plant mass.  The minerals microgreens tend to be the richest in are potassium, iron, zinc, magnesium, and copper

Antioxidants:  Antioxidants counteract unstable molecules that damage our body’s cells and DNA.

Dietary guidelines advised that people consume 1 to 4 cups of vegetables daily, depending on age.  Yet as we all know daily vegetable intake remains far below these recommendations.

Microgreens provide a much more significant percentage of health-promoting nutrients than their mature vegetable counterparts. They also offer greater medicinal benefits than those offered by the matured plants.

Therefore, since vegetable intake is below recommended portions, increasing the nutrition density of those we eat will help close the gap.

We also know that the fresher a food source is, the more vitamins and minerals it retains.  

Microgreens cover both bases, they can be quickly and easily grown in the home and served minutes after harvest, and they are one of the most nutrient-dense vegetables available

Pea Shoots microgreens

The pea shoots leaves, and tendrils are an excellent backdrop when plating dishes. Aside from this, the fresh and refreshing flavour it adds to a meal makes it a favourite among cooks and chefs.  And are the kids favourite! They can add a crisp texture and green colour to your salads and sandwich wraps.

We all know that all microgreens are nutrient-dense, but pea shoots are at the top of this list as they include beta-carotene – which our bodies convert into vitamin A, vitamin C, folate–essential building blocks for the human body, and fibre.

Pea shoots have a high iron content. Iron is used to carry oxygen around and acts as an important cofactor in many of the body’s metabolic pathways. The most prevalent disorder caused by iron deficiency is anaemia. The high iron content of pea shoots helps to address this and provides a better alternative than meat.

Radish Microgreens

Radish microgreens are a bold and powerful source of nutrients and can also be considered the most nutritious microgreen.  Radish microgreens’ nutrition facts include vitamins A, B, C, E, and K. They also deliver calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc to the human body. As they are powerful in nutritional value, their taste can also be powerful.

They provide vital nutrients in abundance, including proteins, essential amino acids, vitamins, polyunsaturated fats, fibre, minerals, and antioxidants.

Radish microgreens provide multiple crucial medical benefits due to their rich nutritional components, including antioxidant, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, anti-inflammatory benefits, and anti-cancer properties.

Sunflower Microgreens

Sunflower microgreens have a wonderful nutty flavour and a crunchy texture, and are awesome on sandwiches, in soups, salads, scrambled eggs, and wraps.

Sunflower microgreens are a substantial source of complete protein, meaning that they contain all building blocks needed to form the essential amino acids.  This makes them great for vegetarians.  They also good source of the good omega 6 and omega 9 fatty acids.

Sunflower greens contain up to 100 times the enzymes of regular homegrown greens which help your body to assimilate more easily, importing phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals. As sprouted sunflower greens contain folate, vitamins A B complex, C, D, and E.

Broccoli Microgreens

The health benefits of broccoli microgreens are unbelievable, considering their tiny size. During this microgreen stage, sulforaphane, one of the plant’s natural compounds peaks. Sulforaphane is nature’s most potent known Nrf2 activator–which means it activates a biological process that actually creates antioxidant proteins in your body.

This compound is also present in a few other cruciferous vegetables like Bok choy, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale. However, broccoli is one of the foods highest in sulforaphane, particularly at the sprout and microgreen stages. 

Let’s take a look at some of the health benefits of broccoli microgreens and sulforaphane.

Some articles listed underneath supports that sulforaphane

• Sulforaphane fight cancer

By reducing the number and size of various types of cancer cells and making it harder for cancer cells to multiply, sulforaphane shown to fight cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5456215/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20388854/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29977456/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25364882/

• Sulforaphane supports cardiovascular health
  One of the major causes of cardiovascular diseases and complications is inflammation. Inflammation of the arteries can cause narrowing of the vessels leading to high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries. Studies suggest that sulforaphane contains anti-inflammatory properties. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19729611/

• Sulforaphane has been found to alleviate the effects of diabetes by reducing blood sugar levels

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28615356/

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Now that you know all the magic microgreens can do to our body and wellbeing, why not try growing your own at home? Our Micro Shooters growing kits can be grown from seed in just a few days! Find them here