90 times more antioxidants (25-year study)


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 36

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Hello Reader,

I read that finding twice. Pomegranate microgreens delivered ninety times the antioxidant activity of seeds—not 90 percent. Phenolic content jumped 30-fold in the same window. The study examined 60+ micro-herb species over 25 years. Pomegranate wasn't alone. Each species concentrated different therapeutic compounds at different rates. Which compounds. Which species. Why timing matters.

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Organic microgreens hit $60 per pound in retail metro markets. Wholesale: $25-40. Production costs dropping 10-20% through 2033.

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Pantry lentils, beans, barley sprout in five days. No garden. Just water and time. Watch the method.

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Andrew

P. O. Box 580, Decatur, GA 30031
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 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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