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

# Health and nutrition

What microgreens contain and what studies have found about eating them.

- [Are Microgreens Keto? How to Count Net Carbs](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/are-microgreens-keto/): Are microgreens keto? Find total carbohydrate, fiber, and sugar per crop, plus per serving net carb ceilings measured against daily keto limits.
- [Microgreens and Eye Health: What the Lutein Numbers Show](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-eye-health/): Microgreens and eye health: learn what a 2012 study found in cilantro and red sorrel, how that compares to spinach, and what the AREDS2 trial actually tested.
- [Are Microgreens Low FODMAP? What Monash Research Shows](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/are-microgreens-low-fodmap/): Are microgreens low FODMAP? Learn what Monash sprouting research shows, which crop families deserve extra caution, and how reintroduction testing works.
- [Best Microgreens for Kidney Health: Potassium by the Serving](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-kidney-health/): See measured potassium and phosphorus for the best microgreens for kidney health, from lowest to highest, plus what your renal dietitian needs to know.
- [High Protein Microgreens: Calories and Protein per Serving](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-calories-and-protein/): Compare high protein microgreens by crop, with protein and calories per 100 grams and per serving, so you know exactly what ends up on your plate.
- [Best Tasting Microgreens: 233 Consumers Ranked Them, and Bull's Blood Beet Won](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/best-tasting-microgreens/): Preference has been measured on 233 consumers across three panels. Bull's Blood beet topped the only 0-to-100 ranking, pea shoots and Swiss chard led the other two, and milder crops won throughout.
- [Microgreens vs Baby Greens: Same Seed, Same Tray, and the Only Difference Is When You Cut](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-vs-baby-greens/): These are harvest stages of one plant, not three foods. USDA and Maryland disagree on where microgreens end, 17 of 61 crops with a published harvest window break the day counts, and the yield result everyone cites is a density experiment.
- [The Healthiest Microgreens: Which Are Most Nutritious, and Why the Ranking Collapses](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/which-microgreen-is-most-nutritious/): Red cabbage leads vitamin C, red sorrel beta-carotene, cilantro the other carotenoids and green daikon radish vitamin E, all in one study. Converted to a real serving, first and third are 15 micrograms apart.
- [Microgreens and Bone Health: The Nutrient Is Real, and Nobody Mentions Warfarin](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-bone-health/): Vitamin K1 is the one nutrient microgreens genuinely deliver, at up to 137 percent of a day's intake in a handful. Five pages making the bone claim were checked and none mentioned the drug it interacts with.