MICROGREENS CAN SUPPORT GUT HEALTH

Foods that are high in dietary fibre like microgreens can ease constipation or other gastro-intestinal distress when eaten as part of a healthy balanced diet. Research also indicates that dietary fibre serves as a “prebiotic,” or material that provides an ideal environment  for the “good” bacteria in the human microbiome to flourish.

Eating more  vegetables and their microgreens precursors is linked to a lower risk of many more treatable diseases like Cardiovascular Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease and Mineral Deficiencies. Mineral Malnutrition including iron and zinc impacts over two-thirds of the world population. One  study (Weber, 2017) suggests that broccoli microgreens have the rich source of minerals – twice as many quantities of Mg, Mn, Cu and Zn than its mature vegetable. 

In the research done by Pinto, et al., compost-grown broccoli microgreen had between 1.15 and 2.32 times more minerals, including phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, calcium, sodium and copper than their mature counterpart apart from being a great source of beneficial plant compounds like antioxidants. In Chennai Microgreens all our microgreens are compost-grown.