10 Reasons to Eat Sprouts

Sprouts truly are the best locally-grown food, yet not enough people eat or grow them. Considering there many health and environmental benefits, it’s time to consider adding sprouts to your diet. Here are 10 reasons to eat more sprouts:

1. 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.

2. The quality of the protein in the beans, nuts, seeds, or grains improves when it is sprouted. Proteins change during the soaking and sprouting process, improving its nutritional value. The amino acid lysine, for example, which is needed to prevent cold sores and to maintain a healthy immune system increases significantly during the sprouting process.

3. The fiber content of the beans, nuts, seeds, or grains increases substantially. Fiber is critical to weight loss. It not only binds to fats and toxins in our body to escort them out, it ensures that any fat our body breaks down is moved quickly out of the body before it can resorb through the walls of the intestines (which is the main place for nutrient absorption into the blood).

4. Vitamin content increases dramatically. This is especially true of vitamins A, B-complex, C, and E. The vitamin content of some seeds, grains, beans, or nuts increases by up to 20 times the original value within only a few days of sprouting. Research shows that during the sprouting process mung beansprouts (or just beansprouts, as they are often called) increase in vitamin B1 by up to 285 percent, vitamin B2 by up to 515 percent, and niacin by up to 256 percent.

5. Essential fatty acid content increases during the sprouting process. Most of us are deficient in these fat-burning essential fats because they are not common in our diet. Eating more sprouts is an excellent way to get more of these important nutrients.

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susan k.

6:57AM PST on Nov 17, 2012

Get information ,I'll pass it on .

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rajendran a.

11:34PM PDT on Oct 17, 2012

There is no need to take trouble to grow sprouts at home if you are in Chennai.
Walk into any Pazhamudir Nilayam and pick up the sprouts you want.

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Dale O.

8:21AM PDT on Jul 31, 2012

Interesting but a bit concerned now about some doctors saying that eating sprouts can be toxic so hard to know what to believe!

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Kelly R.

6:54PM PDT on Jun 17, 2012

Thanx

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John S.

6:03AM PDT on Jun 9, 2012

Thanks, don't you mean 100 times more per weight. Essentially all the nutrients are there without the water?

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Mindy F.

2:08PM PDT on May 13, 2012

I didn't know all this- also, sprouts are easy to make at home.

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8:48AM PDT on May 6, 2012

Thanks for the info, didn't know.

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Douglas S.

6:58PM PDT on May 5, 2012

Enjoyed the article

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Lynn C.

9:08PM PDT on Apr 30, 2012

Oh Michelle, you've done it again. Have been wanting some change in my diet, but because of budgetary and time constraints, haven't come up with anything inspiring. Now this great idea - thank you!