Importance of Sprouts

What are sprouts exactly?

Well, there are a lot of different types – almost as many as there are edible plants. Bean sprouts, Seeds of Alfalfa, Sunflower, Soya bean, Gram, Soybean, Wheat, Moong, Lobia, Methi, etc. can be used for sprouts.

Split peas, Kidney beans, Black beans, Pinto beans and Garbanzo beans are also used as sprouted seeds sunflower sprouts, rye sprouts… every plant-based food started with a sprout and grew from there.

Experts estimate that there can be up to 100 times more enzymes in sprouts than uncooked fruits and vegetables. Enzymes are special types of proteins that act as catalysts for all your body’s functions.

Extracting more vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids from the foods you eat ensures that your body has the nutritional building blocks of life to ensure every process works more effectively.

But the main reason for eating sprouts is about nutrition and digestion. It's essentially about getting the most benefit out of a plant in the most biologically concentrated form.

When you sprout foods, you increase proteolytic enzymes that make both carbohydrates and proteins digestible.

While your body produces proteolytic enzymes when you eat foods that don't contain digestive enzymes, your body is forced to manufacture them (instead of making enzymes it should be making). After a while, your body's ability to produce the right enzymes wanes along with its ability to fight off disease.

The good news: enzymes from sprouted foods can replace those your body no longer produces.

Sprouts as young as three days old contain 10 to 100 times the glucoraphanin, the main enzyme inducer, of the mature vegetable, which helps protect against chemical cancer-causing agents.

Eating sprouted foods not only boosts the antioxidant vitamin C content, but also increases the chlorophyll content (a good thing), which creates a hostile environment for harmful bacteria and detoxifies your body while boosting your oxygen and immune system levels.

Some find sprouts to be a rather odd thing to eat when the full-grown variety is on hand, but they come with their own hugely beneficial packages of nutrients that are missing from the adult version, so to speak. It only stands to reason that from the seed to the full-grown plant, there are different nutrients, and some are concentrated.

The vitamin E content, for example (which boosts your immune system and protects cells from free radical damage) can be as high as 7.5 mg in a cup of broccoli sprouts compared to 1.5 mg in the same amount of raw or cooked broccoli. The selenium content can go from 28 mg versus 1.5 on the same scale.

There are tremendous health benefits from including sprouts in your diet: ... Vitamin, such as A, B, C and E, and essential fatty acid nutrients increase in sprouting and minerals bind to protein, making them more easily absorbed. Sprouts alkalize the body and protect it from disease including cancer.

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Thank you …During sprouting, minerals bind to protein in the seed, grain, nut, or bean, making them more useable in the body. This is true of alkaline minerals like calcium, magnesium, and others than help us to balance our body chemistry for weight loss and better health.

Sprouts are the ultimate locally-grown food. When you grow them yourself you are helping the environment and ensuring that you are not getting unwanted pesticides, food additives, and other harmful fat-bolstering chemicals that thwart your weight loss efforts.

The energy contained in the seed, grain, nut, or legume is ignited through soaking and sprouting.

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Sprouts are alkalizing to your body. Many illnesses including cancer have been linked to excess acidity in the body.

Sprouts are inexpensive. People frequently use the cost of healthy foods as an excuse for not eating healthy. But, with sprouts being so cheap, there really is no excuse for not eating healthier.

While an entire cup of sprouts may be more than you'd consume at a time, the above profile speaks to the nutrition they provide.

In this amount, you get 43 percent of the daily recommended value in vitamin K (for bone strength and formation and increased protection from neuronal damage in the brain, which is helpful in treating Alzheimer's disease).

You also get 23 percent of the DV in vitamin C (a proven infection fighter) and 16 percent of the folate (required for DNA, the genetic material found in all cells of the body, and amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, without which our chances of chances of developing anaemia, heart disease, stroke, and cancer would increase).

Sprouts are also an excellent source of fiber, manganese, riboflavin, and copper, along with smaller but significant amounts of protein, thiamin, niacin, Vitamin B6, pantothenic acid, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium.

Wrong eating habits,

Wrong living habits

Wrong thinking habits along with junk and fast foods are the harbinger of acidity and hyper-acidity.

It is more prominent in urban culture that leads to different lifestyle related disorders such as obesity.

Sprouts are the surest answer to maintain balance between acidity and alkalinity.

Sprouts being one of the best natural foods greatly help to counter the acidity.

Sprouts are wonder food due to its high nutritional value.

Natural sprouts are good for a healthy body and mind development. It ensures blood purification and strengthens the immune system.

In Naturopathy, sprouts are termed as medicine because of its preserving and promoting health aspects.

Salads are good appetizer. When salads are prepared by using sprouts; the nutritional value of salads increase manifolds.

For different types of sprouts recipes; 

Sprouts are used along with tomatoes, onion, broccoli, radish, etc.

Anyone can eat sprouts. Sprouts are very important for patients and disease prone people.

Adding cucumber, tomato, green chilli, coriander leaves lemon, onion, etc.

Increases its taste as well as nutritional value.

If a healthy person takes sprouts regularly, he prevents himself from many diseases.