Health and nutrition
What microgreens contain and what studies have found about eating them.
Are Microgreens Keto? How to Count Net Carbs
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.