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Why your iron pills fail (and what works)

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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 35

Tuesday, 07 October 2025

Hello Reader,

Your Iron Pills Don't Work Like This

Italian researchers simulated human digestion—exact pH, temperature, enzymes. Three microgreens tested. Swiss chard released 33% more iron. The mechanism behind absorption changes everything.

→ See what bioaccessibility means​

Nine Trays to 200 Restaurants

Adam Pollack started in his apartment. Burned-out chef, no farming background, no investors. Ten years later? Closed Loop Farms: 200 Chicago restaurants, 15 employees at $20/hour. The scaling method matters more than the starting point.

→ Read how he built it​

Cosmetics Companies Stopped Extracting

They juice fresh microgreens now. Clinical trials showed 32% more collagen production from fresh broccoli juice versus extracts. Plant structure beats isolated compounds.

→ See the lab results​

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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 earlystartup 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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