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14% have diabetes. Microgreens help.

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MICROGREENS WEEKLY DIGEST

Your weekly digest of everything microgreens, delivering the latest news, science, nutrition facts, trends, and recipes straight to your inbox."

Volume 2025 Number 24

Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Hello Reader,

Looking at this week’s digest, I need to tell you something that surprised me.

Fourteen percent of adults now live with diabetes. That number has doubled since 1990. But here’s what caught my attention: researchers found that broccoli, radish, and clover microgreens actually improved glucose tolerance in diabetic mice.

Not a cure. Just food that might do more than people expect.

This week you’ll also read about Ukrainian kids teaching their communities to grow “superfoods of the future,” Irish Mahoney winning $15,000 for her Maui microgreens farm, and why the USDA just cut funding that supported over 2,500 small farms.

Plus, new packaging regulations are hitting seven states. Smart growers are switching to biodegradable containers before penalties arrive.

Read the full digest here → Microgreens World Digest.

The research is early. The stakes are real. The choice is yours.

Growing strong,
The Microgreens World Team

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Hi! I'm D. Andrew Neves

 Editor-in-Chief, Microgreens World, “The Best Information: Tray Tested, Science Backed"  Co-Founder of JPure Farms, an early startup indoor microgreens operation in Atlanta, Georgia  Author of more than 10 books, including "Children of the Soil: How To Grow Nutritious Microgreens At Home in Nine Days"  Founder and Managing Editor of MBS Publishing, "Science Writing for the Rest of Us"  Certified Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and over 35 years of writing and researching health and nutrition. Visit my website, Microgreens World, www.microgreensworld.com

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