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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The one human dose threshold is 194 micromoles of goitrin. Reaching it takes about 110 g of a high-progoitrin kale or 1.94 kg of commercial broccoli, which is about 7 garnishes against 129.

Cooking is the step that addresses the pathogen risk for under-fives, and it is the one thing you can act on. No pediatric or federal body sets a starting age, so here is exactly what is established.

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.

Published yields for 39 of 62 crops run from 1.00 oz to 18.77 a tray. A seed catalog's range is only 2.7-fold, because the commercial world has already selected out the low yielders.