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Microgreens Guru

The journal

The health series

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  1. A small glass of wheatgrass juice on a kitchen counter beside a tray of growing wheatgrass, photographed level with the counter in flat daylight

    Part 10 of 12

    Microgreens for Skin, Hair and Detox: What the Evidence Shows

    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.

  2. A small white plate on a kitchen counter holding a garnish sized pile of cut green broccoli microgreens, standing next to a flat digital kitchen scale turned so its display faces away from the camera, photographed level with the counter in flat daylight

    Part 11 of 12

    Microgreens and the Thyroid: How Much Would You Actually Have to Eat?

    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.

  3. Three unlabeled punnets of different cut microgreens on a market table, photographed level with the table in flat daylight

    Part 12 of 12

    Microgreens and Allergies: Four Crops Are Regulated Allergens

    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.