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Fresh Sprouts are a Whole Food, Filled With Enzymes and Nutritional Value!

Living and Raw Foods

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Sprouts are a fun way to create economical fresh organic leafy greens in your own kitchen. 

Soaking grains, nuts, seeds and beans overnight triggers the onset of the sprouting process and deactivates the enzyme inhibitors. Just soaking them overnight before cooking makes them much easier to digest. We have even taken to soaking our porridge (Red River Cereal) overnight because we find it more digestible this way.

Take any edible seeds, nuts, grains or beans, soak them in water overnight and they should swell up. Many of them will now be ready to eat without any cooking at all. Letting the sprouts grow longer is optional. Putting the sprouts in a window so they turn green is also optional. Just soak your seeds, nuts, grains or beans for 24 hours and then try eating them. If you like the taste then they are ready to eat.

Our favorite is organic mung beans. Just soak them overnight and in the morning they taste delicious. Once soaked, we think of them as vegetables rather than beans. Mung beans are great in salads or added to a stir fry.

Sprouts are living foods, easy to digest and filled with enzymes, proteins, complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Everything your body needs in a form that your body can use! Sprouts are economical, easy to make and nutritious.

Simply by sprouting the grain or bean you have eliminated the need to cook it. No need to bake bread, or to cook your beans for hours to make them digestible. Just sprout and serve! Amazingly, even shelled sunflower seeds will sprout.

You can soak nuts overnight and then dehydrate them. This removes the enzyme inhibitors while allowing you to continue eating tasty almonds and other nuts. You can make sprouts anywhere, even while camping. Pack in the dried grains, seeds, nuts, beans, and peas and produce fresh vegetables in your campsite!

Sprouts are environmentally friendly. They eliminate the need for cooking fuel, and reduce the generation of greenhouse gases. "Manna bread" is uncooked bread made from sprouts. You can find it in health food stores.

Sprouts are whole food. Eating sprouts gives you the full nutritional value of the food. Nothing has been processed out, no chemicals or preservatives have been added. The essential oils have never been exposed to the air so they are not rancid. The enzymes have not been destroyed by cooking. Sprouts are just simple, natural, wholesome food. Sprouts taste great in a bowl with a bit of salad dressing, mixed in with other leafy greens, stuffed into a sandwich, sprinkled over your dinner, or used as a garnish on soups. Sprouts can also be stir-fried or steamed with other vegetables, or added to veggie burgers. 

Use clean filtered water to soak your sprouts overnight. Then pour the water on your house plants. 

Flax is an exception. The soaking water turns gelatinous and is OK to eat. 

Good choices to sprout:  

  • seeds - clover, sunflower, radish, mustard, fenugreek, broccoli

  • beans - mung, lentils, garbanzo

  • nuts - almonds, filberts (hazelnuts) 

  • grains - wheat, rye

You will soon discover your favorites.