Quick intro to sprouting:
- Rinse Seeds twice a day & drain
- Ready to eat when the sprout is as long as the seed itself.
- Sprout using a big open mouth glass jar & cheese-cloth as a top cover (easy to drain)
http://www.living-foods.com/articles/sprouting.html
Sprouted Seeds offer:
- Increases in Protein Quality
- Increase in crude fibre content
- Increases in essential fatty acids
- Increases in vitamin content
- Increase in minerals
- make sure seeds don't dry out
- Don't leave seeds in water
- Make sure room temperature is not too high or too low
- Make sure you have rinse the seeds properly
- Make sure you use clean equipment
- Make sure you have proper air ventilation
- Make sure you use filtered water
- Azuki Beans
- Barley grass
- Brocolli
- Buckwheat
- Clover
- Garden cress
- Dill
- Fenugreek
- Chick Pea (Garbanzo)
- Lemongrass
- Lentils
- Lettuce
- Milk thistle
- Mizuna
- Mung Bean
- Pea
- Quinoa
- Radish
- Soybean
- Sunflower
- Tatsoi
- Wheat
- Yam
Can I buy dried beans and sprout them?
No you have to make sure you buy organic beans that haven't been treated with pesticide - these can be used to sprout.