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The journal

# Journal

Page 8 of 12

- [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.
- [Four Bags Labeled Kale, Two Species and a 227 Percent Price Gap: How Microgreen Seed Actually Gets Named](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/crop-names-and-aliases/): Federal law makes a seed packet state its kind and variety, not its species. One catalog's four kale microgreen listings span two different species and $25.73 to $84.25 a pound.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Microgreens vs Mushrooms: On Labor Per Pound the Two Overlap, and the Farm-to-Farm Spread Is 10.9-Fold](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-vs-mushrooms/): Put both crops on labor hours per pound and they land on top of each other. The variation between mushroom farms is 10.9-fold, which is larger than any gap between the crops, so the operator decides this and not the crop.
- [Microgreens vs Sprouts: The Difference Is a Cut, Not a Nutrient, and It Decides Which Federal Rule Applies](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-vs-sprouts/): A sprout is eaten whole, a microgreen is cut above its roots, and that cut decides whether FDA's sprout rule applies. The nutrition claim used to rank them was measured on mature vegetables.
- [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.
- [What Is a Microgreen? A Young Seedling, Cut Above the Soil at First True Leaf](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/start-here-what-are-microgreens/): A young edible seedling, grown densely and cut above its medium at about the first true leaf, usually 1.5 to 3 inches and 7 to 21 days. That cut is what separates it from a sprout.
- [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.