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[The journal](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/)

# Buying and eating

Page 2 of 3

- [The Most Popular Microgreens, Ranked by Different Measures](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/most-popular-microgreens/): Learn which crops top a US grower survey, a global market report and a seed retailer's best sellers to see the most popular microgreens three ways.
- [The Most Expensive Microgreens to Buy and Grow](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/most-expensive-microgreens/): Bronze fennel, red sorrel, and shiso can cost far more than common crops. See which are the most expensive microgreens to buy or grow, with dated prices.
- [Best Potting Soil for Microgreens: Cost per Tray](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/best-potting-soil-for-microgreens/): Compare the best potting soil for microgreens by ingredients, bag size, trays filled per bag, and cost per tray, plus problems to expect from each mix.
- [Herb Microgreens: Slower and Harder, and They Use Less Seed Than Everything Else](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreen-herbs/): Herb-family crops take a median 19 days against 11.5 for everything else, and 8 of the 9 hardest crops are herbs. They also sow lighter, so the premium is bench time, not seed.
- [Which Microgreens Should a Beginner Grow? Start With Broccoli, Radish or Mustard](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/beginner-microgreens/): Nearly every beginner list names radish, pea and sunflower. Pea and sunflower are the only two of that set not rated beginner: both carry high mold risk, both need a soak, and both sow at six times the median seed rate.
- [Buying Microgreens: The Same $6 Buys 60 Grams or 100](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/buying-microgreens/): Across every observed price, what a shopper can actually pay spans 2-fold while sellers quote across 8.3. Farm-direct covers almost the whole range by itself, because pack size decides the price and the channel does not.
- [How Much Microgreens a Day? A Serving and a Dose Differ by Twelve Times](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/how-much-microgreens-per-day/): No regulator anywhere sets a daily microgreen intake. The only weighed serving published is 2.5 grams; the only daily-feeding trials used 28 to 30. Nobody has reconciled those two numbers.
- [Juicing Microgreens: One Glass Is Three Quarters of a Tray](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/juicing-microgreens/): Nobody has measured how much juice a microgreen tray gives. The one published figure is a seller's, for wheatgrass, on a tray 23 percent larger than a 1020. Rescaled, a 240 mL glass is three quarters of a tray.
- [Why Microgreens Are Expensive: You Are Mostly Buying the Box](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/why-microgreens-are-expensive/): In the only full published tray budget, labels, packaging and marketing are 50 to 60 percent of what a tray costs to produce. Growing the plant is 17 to 23 percent, and the seed is under 10.