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Microgreens Guru

The journal

The health series

Twelve articles on what microgreens have and have not been shown to do, each naming the material actually tested: microgreen, sprout, extract or mature vegetable. Read in order or start anywhere.

  1. A 1020 tray of dense ten day old green broccoli microgreens on a working laboratory bench in flat daylight, beside a plain unopened sample collection kit box and a printed chart lying at a shallow angle with its type too fine to read, photographed level with the bench

    Part 1 of 12

    Microgreens and Gut Health: What One Small Study Actually Found

    Eleven people, one serving, and the researchers looked at chemistry rather than symptoms. The constipation study often cited for this used sprouts, was paid for by a farm, and one good bacteria went down.

  2. A working laboratory bench in flat daylight holding a clear punnet of deep purple red cabbage microgreens beside a rack of empty capped glass sample tubes and a printed chart lying at a shallow angle, its type and plotted lines too fine to read, photographed level with the bench

    Part 2 of 12

    Are Microgreens Anti-Inflammatory? What the Research Really Says

    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.

  3. A blood pressure cuff and a small dish of cut green microgreens side by side on a plain kitchen counter, photographed level with the counter in flat daylight

    Part 3 of 12

    Microgreens and Heart Health: What Has Been Tested in People, and What Has Not

    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.

  4. A kitchen worktop in flat daylight holding a small tray of fresh green broccoli microgreens beside a compact handheld glucose meter with its screen dark and unlit, and a printed page lying at a shallow angle with its type too fine to read, photographed level with the surface

    Part 4 of 12

    Microgreens and Diabetes: What Is Known About 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.

  5. A kitchen scale on a worktop in flat daylight holding a small pile of fresh microgreens beside a plated salad, photographed level with the surface

    Part 5 of 12

    Do Microgreens Help You Lose Weight? Two Claims, One Answer

    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.

  6. A small dish of cut green microgreens on a kitchen counter beside a plain drinking glass, photographed level with the counter in flat daylight

    Part 6 of 12

    Microgreens and Immunity: What the Nutrients Actually Do, and What Has Not Been Tested

    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.

  7. A small bowl of cut green microgreens on a kitchen counter beside a weekly pill organizer, photographed level with the counter in flat daylight

    Part 7 of 12

    Microgreens and Bone Health: The Nutrient Is Real, and Nobody Mentions Warfarin

    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.

  8. A small bowl of cut green microgreens beside a wedge of lemon on a kitchen counter, photographed level with the counter in flat daylight

    Part 8 of 12

    Microgreens and Iron: You Would Need Eleven Trays a Day

    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.

  9. A tray of dense green broccoli microgreens on a laboratory bench beside a rack of empty glass vials, photographed level with the bench in flat daylight

    Part 9 of 12

    Microgreens and Cancer: The Compound Everyone Names Is the One Broccoli Microgreens Have Least Of

    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.