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The journal

# Journal

Page 9 of 12

- [Buying Microgreens: The Same $6 Buys 60 Grams or 100](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/buying-microgreens/): Across every observed price, what a shopper can actually pay spans 2-fold while sellers quote across 8.3. Farm-direct covers almost the whole range by itself, because pack size decides the price and the channel does not.
- [Grow or Buy Microgreens? The Answer Is an Hourly Rate, and It Is $23.60](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/grow-or-buy-microgreens/): Seed alone makes home growing look eleven times cheaper. Add medium, power, a failure rate and your own time at $20 an hour and the saving against the cheapest retail is 8 percent.
- [Have These Gone Bad? Judging a Box of Microgreens in the Fridge](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/have-microgreens-gone-bad/): A warm fridge costs days: arugula, radish and red cabbage lost a week of quality at 10C against 4C, and one mustard study lost ten. And no visible sign has ever been validated as a safety test.
- [Heavy Metals and Nitrate in Microgreens: What Has Actually Been Measured](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/heavy-metals-and-nitrate-in-microgreens/): The nitrate figures circulating for microgreens are dry weight, and the legal limits are fresh weight. Convert the same published result and it lands anywhere from 1,045 to 11,307 mg/kg depending on the crop. Three species have been assayed for metals.
- [How Much Microgreens a Day? A Serving and a Dose Differ by Twelve Times](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/how-much-microgreens-per-day/): No regulator anywhere sets a daily microgreen intake. The only weighed serving published is 2.5 grams; the only daily-feeding trials used 28 to 30. Nobody has reconciled those two numbers.
- [Juicing Microgreens: One Glass Is Three Quarters of a Tray](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/juicing-microgreens/): Nobody has measured how much juice a microgreen tray gives. The one published figure is a seller's, for wheatgrass, on a tray 23 percent larger than a 1020. Rescaled, a 240 mL glass is three quarters of a tray.
- [Microgreen Grow Kits Against DIY: The Cheapest Kit Is the Most Expensive](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/grow-kits-against-diy/): Priced per unit of growing area, the ranking inverts: the $60 kit is the cheapest and the $20 kit is nearly the dearest. Against assembling it yourself, the sample runs 6 to 40 times.
- [Microgreen Powder Against Fresh: What You Gain, What You Lose, and What Nobody Can Tell You](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/powder-against-fresh/): Sellers claim 80, 85, 95 percent or negligible loss. In the one broccoli study, retention ran from 4.42 percent for chlorophyll to 97.86 for potassium, a 22-fold spread. One number cannot describe that.
- [Microgreens and Allergies: Four Crops Are Regulated Allergens](https://microgreensguru.com/blog/microgreens-and-allergies/): Sesame, mustard, buckwheat and celery are all grown as microgreens and all carry allergen labeling law somewhere. And not one published case report names a cut microgreen as the food eaten.