The Benefits Of Sprouting

It’s important not to destory your vitamins. But even if you do everything right, it does not guarantee that you will get enough. Augmenting the vitamin content of your food is possible through sprouting.

Sprouting grains and seeds is a fascinating process. Just a tablespoon of seeds can transform into a hundred times its original mass. More remarkable than this is that the original seed, quite low in micro-nutrients, transforms into a nutrient powerhouse. Vitamin C, for example, can multiply 100 to 200 fold; B vitamins easily quintuple. Even the content of amino acids augments; lysine in wheat rises by 50%, and 10-35% in other grains.¹

Gram for gram, “As an example, a sprouted Mung Bean has a carbohydrate content of a melon, vitamin A of a lemon, thiamin of an avocado, riboflavin of a dry apple, niacin of a banana, and ascorbic acid of a loganberry.”²

Sprouing constitutes a form of “pre-digestion,” by breaking down phytic acid, present in all cereals and legumes, which interferes with the body’s ability to absorb calcium and magenesium. It also helps pre-digest oligiosacchrides (starches famous for causing gas) by transforming part of that difficult starch into simple sugars.

Given that sprouts are pre-digested, and considering their enormous nutrient-content, they are a far more efficient food than their non-germinated counterparts.

Germination is not a recent practice; don’t think that raw foodists popularized it as a last-ditch effort to convince you that grains and legumes can be eaten raw. They can. Sprouting has a very long history, among many disparate peoples. Even more, where do you think beer comes from?

Consider this: food security. Grains and seeds keep for long periods of time, ready to sprout as soon as you decide to water them. During colder seasons, when fresh produce becomes scarcer, sprouts are an ample source of nurtrition. Even when you stop watering them and stick them in the fridge, they will continue to grow slowly, gaining nutrition; whereas, fruits and vegetables picked and purchased from the supermarket only lose nutrition over time.

Start sprouting!

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