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Microgreens Guru

The journal

The eating series

What to buy, what it costs, how much to eat and who should be careful. The practical end of the subject, for people who are eating microgreens rather than growing them.

  1. Three sealed clear clamshells of microgreens of noticeably different sizes standing side by side on a refrigerated supermarket shelf, the greens visible through the lids and a plain shelf edge below them, photographed square on at shelf height in flat store light

    Part 1 of 5

    Buying Microgreens: The Same $6 Buys 60 Grams or 100

    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.

  2. A single small clear clamshell of microgreens standing on a bench beside a stack of empty flat-packed clamshells and a roll of blank adhesive labels, with a full 1020 tray of uncut greens behind them, photographed side on at bench height in flat indoor light

    Part 2 of 5

    Why Microgreens Are Expensive: You Are Mostly Buying the Box

    In the only full published tray budget, labels, packaging and marketing are 50 to 60 percent of what a tray costs to produce. Growing the plant is 17 to 23 percent, and the seed is under 10.

  3. A small kitchen bowl holding a loose two-cup heap of mixed red and green microgreens beside a dinner plate carrying a sparse pinch of the same greens as a garnish, the two amounts side by side for comparison, photographed at table height in flat daylight

    Part 3 of 5

    How Much Microgreens a Day? A Serving and a Dose Differ by Twelve Times

    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.

  4. A small glass of dense green juice standing beside a masticating juicer on a kitchen bench, with a heap of cut wheatgrass on one side and a mound of pale spent pulp on the other, photographed side on at bench height in flat daylight

    Part 4 of 5

    Juicing Microgreens: One Glass Is Three Quarters of a Tray

    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.

  5. A small bowl of soft cooked vegetable puree with finely minced green microgreens stirred through it, set on a high chair tray beside a short-handled weaning spoon, photographed from above in flat daylight

    Part 5 of 5

    Microgreens for Babies and Children: Cook Them First, and Here Is Why

    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.