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

# Health and nutrition

Page 2 of 3

- [Microgreens and Cancer: The Compound Everyone Names Is the One Broccoli Microgreens Have Least Of](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-cancer/): Every cancer claim runs on sulforaphane, which comes from glucoraphanin. Broccoli microgreens carry twenty times more glucoerucin than glucoraphanin, and no human microgreen cancer outcome study exists.
- [Microgreens and Heart Health: What Has Been Tested in People, and What Has Not](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-heart-health/): No completed human trial has measured blood pressure or cholesterol after anyone ate a microgreen. The cholesterol result circulating everywhere is an 8-week mouse study, and the nitrate case cannot even be costed.
- [Microgreens and Immunity: What the Nutrients Actually Do, and What Has Not Been Tested](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-immunity/): Supports the immune system is a regulatory category, not a finding. No human trial has measured infections after anyone ate a microgreen, and a realistic serving supplies about 1 percent of a day's zinc.
- [Microgreens and Iron: You Would Need Eleven Trays a Day](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-iron/): A 30 g portion supplies under 1.5 percent of a woman's iron. One half cup of cooked spinach beats two whole trays. And the oxalate story everyone repeats failed its human test.
- [Microgreens for Skin, Hair and Detox: What the Evidence Shows](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-skin-hair-and-detox/): The wheatgrass detox claim traces to one person in 1955, not to a study. There are five human wheatgrass trials, they are about colitis and thalassemia, and the two largest were negative.
- [Are Microgreens Anti-Inflammatory? What the Research Really Says](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-inflammation/): Nobody has fed a person microgreens and measured their inflammation. And when researchers pooled ten broccoli sprout trials, the combined result came out at something that could be zero.
- [Do Microgreens Help You Lose Weight? Two Claims, One Answer](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-weight/): One of these claims is probably true and has nothing to do with microgreens. The other was tested by injecting a compound into mice. Here is which is which.
- [Do Microgreens Really Have 40 Times the Nutrients?](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-40-times-nutrients/): The number is real. It belongs to one nutrient in one crop. Used for microgreens as a category it is wrong in both directions, because some pairs run far above 40 and for at least one compound the mature plant is the more concentrated of the two.
- [Microgreens and Diabetes: What Is Known About Blood Sugar](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-blood-sugar/): Microgreens fit a diabetes plate like any non-starchy vegetable. Whether they lower blood sugar has never been tested: every human trial used broccoli sprout powder or extract, not the fresh greens.