Health & Nutritional Benefits

Packed with concentrated nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes – organic microgreens provide some of the best health benefits on the planet.

Microgreens are little seedlings of edible plants that are often referred to as “vegetable confetti”. They are tiny, beautiful greens characterized by a variety of colors and shapes, as well as by very different and intense, sometimes surprising, flavors and visual appeal. Microgreens are essentially the same vegetable you would  buy at the grocery store, but harvested  at a much earlier stage of growth. Most importantly, these pretty little things are also, although miniscule in size, concentrated in nutrients.

Many microgreens are four to six times higher in vitamins and antioxidants than the fully grown plant, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

In a 2012 study, USDA and University of Maryland researchers evaluated the vitamin and antioxidant content of 25 common microgreens. They found that although there was a lot of variation between the species, in general microgreens had markedly higher concentrations of vitamins and carotenoids (a type of antioxidant) than full-grown plants.

In a 2016 study published in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, researchers found that compared to the mature plants, the microgreens were on average a significantly better source of most of the minerals they measured.