Thursday, July 30, 2009

Sprouting Seeds

Here's my thought about sprouting seeds.

Seedlings are an excellent source of nutrients. You can set your own sprouts from seedlings for a supply of fresh, nutrient-rich foods, which have access to fabulous nutrients:

The sprouts are very young plants, at a certain stage, a seed company. A seed is the stock of energy contains all the nutrients for the plants. When the seeds begin to germinate the nutrients that will live format, this is a great shape, so that they are

Most of us have eaten beansprouts (of sprouted Mung beans) is a Chinese food. Some things are easier to seed than others, eg, alfalfa, lentils, Mung beans and radish. Not trying to bean sprouts, because they are toxic when raw.

A. Vogel an excellent range of sprouting seeds are Biosnacky, the deliberate release, non-irradiated and organic, and the seeds have the best chances of germination. Although it is possible your seeds seedlings in a glass jam that Biosnacky Germinator or three tiered Germinator the best results. It couldnt easier. Only water, rinse, and watch them grow.

Seedlings are healthy and nutritious food that you do not have to cook. Once the seeds have sprouted, you can combine them into one of the following options:

* Place the bowl on its own or with a dressing valitud
* Is the ideal supplement. Sprinkle on, or a mixture of salad
* Add sandwich fillings
* Add a stir fry briefly before serving over Anttila soups or stews before serving

Monday, July 27, 2009

The Different Types Of Beans

Here are the info about the types of beans.

There are many types of grains, but very few were known before the discovery of the Americas. Broad (Fava) beans, soybeans, mung, lentils and French Beans, beans, the "Old World", and they are always very important to beans in a large part of the world.

In North America and South, indigenous peoples discovered and developed, other beans that we know today. These include kidney beans, lima beans, and various types of beans.

Beans can grow as shrubs or climbers or rider. Most types of grain Bush (beans, which are delicious) are treated as stock-feed. All beans are legumes, a group that includes peas.

Some grain legumes eaten together (eg, string, the runners, the snake and wax beans), while others (such as beans) are in the pod before the meal. Many are dried in the long term storage, such as soybean, red kidney, pinto bean, navy, lentils, Mung, large and Lima (butter) beans. Some grains such as scarlet fever Runner bean for the production of food and, in some countries than in other ornamentals.

All beans are protein, which is an excellent substitute for meat in the diet. Soybeans are primarily a high protein content and contains all amino acids, and because it and the highest in a vegetarian diet with soy products, like soy milk, yogurt, cheese and meat analogues. Soybeans also contain phytoestrogens, which are useful in the fight against the symptoms of menopause, bone.

Mung beans and lentils are particularly important for the sector be long, high-protein, and have not time to cook than many other beans require.

Besides protein, beans also of iron, fiber (fiber), folic acid, vitamin B, and strength. These hulls of color (eg, runners Scarlet Fever) also contain antioxidants.

Beans, with the exception of delicious freshly prepared, can also be dried, stored and again, either in whole or in powder and in the courts, as Falafel (instead of chick peas or Garbanzo usual). You're well on maize and beans are easy to grow. (You might guess: They are my favorite beans!)

Sunday, July 26, 2009

How To Grow Bean Sprouts

Here some tips on how to grow bean sprouts.

The next time you're in a supermarket and a bag of bean sprouts for sale, remember that it is really easy to grow your home anytime of the year.

You do not need a garden, you only need a clean glass jar empty, a piece of muslin large enough to cover the opening of the vase, a rubber band to hold it in place, mung beans (a tablespoon or two depending on the size of the pot), lots of water, and from four to seven days longer and longer.

Put a couple of tablespoons of dried mung beans in your pot and pour a couple of inches of boiling water to almost cover with muslin and elastic, and let soak overnight. In the morning, without removing the muslin for the water rinse and at least two times, filling the pot with fresh water, close to washing and to pay all. Leave the plate hangs down at an angle (I have kept in a dry bowl tipped over with the open end facing down). In the evening, rinse and drain again, and to leave a tip jar. Continue rinsing and emptying at least twice a day until the soybeans are grown and expanded. I'm ready to eat when the sprouts are at least 1 cm in length. You can then give them a final rinse, then a bag or keep them in the pot, if you prefer, and put them in the refrigerator.

They can be eaten raw in salads or cooked in a stir-fry.

I wash the jar and reuse. The dishes to be washed muslin in some liquid, and rinse completely after boiling for a few minutes and then re-use.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Growing Sprouts For Your Healths

Here some info about Growing Sprouts for your health.

Worried about health? Confused about what nutrients are best? Why not click Add sprouts to your daily eating plan? You can use a healthy portion of vitamin C needs and to strengthen the system for many B-vitamins. Green leafy vegetables are excellent sources of vitamin A. You can use the whole range of expensive vitamin supplements and still receives nutritional benefits of this very attractive additions to your diet provides.

They are easy to manufacture, however, there are certain guidelines you must follow. You can grow it themselves, even if you do not have a green thumb. You do not have at all soil, only water and cool temperatures. The time between the beginning of seed and the harvest of sprouts is very short: sprouts emerge, as little as two days and a maximum of seven. It depends on what you shoot. A wide range of possibilities, but it can be good for only a few at the beginning, until you start to catch them.

Some of the seeds and bean seeds, you can:

* Alfalfa sprouts

* Beans (Mung, Kidney, Pinto, navy and soy)

* Broccoli

* Clover

Dill *

* Garlic

* Mustard

* Pumpkin

* Radish

* Sunflower

* Wheat berries

Note that this list is only partial, if you go to the abilities of germination, you find more. The diversity makes this approach to food and interesting, exciting.

You do not need any special equipment for the cultivation of plants. All you need are the seeds, water, heat and darkness. Probably only for 10 minutes every day to grow sprouts, all you can eat.

Recipe:

1 ½ cup of these seeds: wheat, beans, rye, oats, rice, sunflower, buckwheat shelled lens, Garbanzo beans

2 tbsp: alfalfa, radish, clover, cabbage.

Soak the seeds 2-3 times their dry volume (of water). If they suck they suck the water (two to twelve hours, depending on the size of the grains), drain the water away, rinse and in a dark, warm place the bottle upside down and look at the corner. Do you want to drain the water. Put something under the piston to the water. Set the deck so that air to and from the glass. A thin cloth or a nylon stocking density. Attach it to the hole with a rubber band or bottle ring. For very small sprouting seeds such as alfalfa: After the seeds are no longer draining, roll the bottle jacket of the outer packaging of seeds. Leave the bottle on the dark side. Best at room temperature of 70 ° C. Important: Rinse the seeds twice a day, drain them well. Incubation under two weeks.

If you plan to eat the raw

They would have to increase by 2-3 inches. For alfalfa, wheatgrass, buckwheat or sunflower sprouts, thereby indirectly sunlight four to five hours if they have already harvested. It is green, so that their vitamin A content. Place bean sprouts to sunlight, it makes them bitter. When the desired length, rinse them and place them in sealed containers, the water-absorber on the ground and in the refrigerator.

Do not shoot more than a week, and grows only in small quantities, only what you are using the short time. It is a good idea to see some sprouts growing all the time. If you look at the vitamins from sprouts, it is recommended that you use up to 125 kilograms of seed per person per year. Otherwise, 30 kg should be sufficient if you plan to eat them raw.

The number of companies, the seeds are seeds that have very fast in recent years. The cost is more if you buy them as planting seed. Here you can find cheaper seeds, the only beautiful in your applications. Some germs experts reported that it was a waste of money for "the sprouted seeds" and not as a normal seeds. Go slowly! Buy a small amount of seed and test.

Not the seeds of more than 5 years, unless you have a very cool place to keep. As seeds age, they take longer to germinate, and it is, this is not the seed.

Sprouts History

Here some fact you need to know about the history of Sprouts.

Sprouting

There is no written evidence that Chinese doctors knew sprouts and they were for the healing of many diseases for more than 5000 years. Shen-Nung, the emperor of China, in 1282 BC, wrote about her and Mung beans as had happened to their growth. Modern China, a short back and the rest of the world, the export of wheat, even if it is less fertile agricultural land and no chemical fertilizers, and very little modern agricultural machinery. Moreover, they are nearly one billion people. That would be impossible for a "modern" farming system.

Thank God for their history

The secret is sprouts. The first mention of the extraordinary nutritional value of seeds germinated in a book, the Emperor of China in 2939 BC. It was not a new idea even then. Most of the families of Chinese origin, the sprouts grow, what each person had a constant supply of high energy foods at low cost. N. expensive to transport. N. Processing and packaging. They could not do what they do when they are burdened with our more developed system of food production. Americans of Oriental descent sprouts are always in their diet as a staple food.

In the book of Daniel in the Bible, we read of germs. Even with its great history, it has been for many centuries before the West about the nutritional values of these extraordinary plants.

From 1772 to 1775, Captain James Cook was plagued by illness among his crew and was looking for answers. It was noted that scurvy (vitamin C) was the cause. In two to three years and travels, many of them have died, most were too sick to work, necessary to a ship underway. So Captain Cook, beginning in 1772, had his sailors eat limes, lemons, and a variety of sprouts, with plenty of vitamin C. He added, fresh fruit and vegetables, as has been ongoing and a plan for the cultivation and consumption of sprouts were. It is a step in the health of seafarers and shipping, solved the biggest problem for the Captain Cook.

Dr. Clive M. McKay, professor of food science at Cornell University wrote an article during the Second World War, the great interest. The first statement in his article as follows: "Wanted! A plant grows in a climate Rival meat in nutritional value, will mature in 3-5 days, can be planted any day of the year, you will not need soil or sunshine, will rival tomatoes in vitamin C, will be free of waste in preparation and can be cooked with little fuel and as quickly as it cut ... ".

He spoke of the buds. The amazing properties of sprouted soybeans has been the subject of research by a team of nutrition experts led by Dr. McKay. Other researchers have surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and Minnesota, Yale and McGill. What has been shown that sprouts retain the B-vitamin complex that is in the original seed. What was even more surprised that he feels that it was a big jump in Vitamin A and an incredible amount of vitamin C that go beyond what the seeds are not sprouting. While some proteins are lost in the process of germination, starch is used in simple sugars, which are easily digestible shoots.

By Dr. McKay, and the publication of information on the research of others, the United States, interest in sprouts and sprouting. In this case, do not catch most people.

The Rising of Coal

However, in the seventies, where health is an important concern for conscience, sprouts have begun to get them, along with the tofu. Bean sprouts are the kind of choice, and the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States has a tendency to note that a cup of bean sprouts contains only 26 calories. They are low in salicylate, the Agriculture Department has pointed out, a natural occurring chemical in plants, the digestive problems in some people.

Today, China and India are major producers of Mung Beans, and the United States is one of the largest customers. This means that the bean sprouts are readily available in this country in the supermarkets.

Of course, even better, you can create your own. Recipes for the demand, which means the silver sprouts Mung bean sprouts with their ends removed. This is a task that agent executed in Chinese families. Today, the rungs are in their own in the United States. A measure of the size of the growing population shoot and consume in this country, the number of websites with the theme, and many manufacturers and distributors of bean sprouts.

Sprout Mung

Here what you need to know about Sprout Mung.

It is an amazing increase in nutrients in sprouted foods when compared to the dried embryo. In this process of germination, vitamins, minerals and protein to grow, while the corresponding reduction of calorie and carbohydrate content. These comparisons are based on an appropriate water content in food is measured. Analysis of dried seeds, grains and legumes shows a very little water. But that is up to tenfold when the same food in seedlings. A more accurate comparison each must have a common denomination of equal water an accurate assessment of changes in nutritional value.

Sprouted Mung beans, for example, is an increase of 8.3 water of dried beans.

Therefore, the nutritional value of sprouted and dried Mung beans can be obtained by multiplying the
Analysis of nutrients of sprouted Mung beans by a factor of 8.3. Based on this criterion, the
Changes in sprouted Mung beans compared with the numbers in the beans, the
Dried stand as follows:

Energy content - taking 15 percent of calories

Total carbohydrate content Decrease 15 per cent

Protein availability Increase 30 per cent

Calcium content Increase 34 per cent

The potassium-80 per cent increase

Sodium increase 690 percent

Iron by 40 percent

Phosphorus content in addition to 56 percent

Vitamin A content Increase 285 percent

Thiamine or Vitamin B1 content Increase 208 percent

Riboflavin or Vitamin B2 content Increase 515 percent

Niacin or Vitamin B3 content in addition to 256 percent

Ascorbic acid or vitamin C content of the infinite growth

The increase in protein availability is of great importance. It is a valuable indication that the
Increased nutritional value of food when sprouted. The simultaneous reduction in carbohydrate --
Content indicates that many carbohydrate molecules are broken down by branches, so that
an absorption of atmospheric nitrogen and reforming into amino acids. The resulting protein is
easily digestible of all proteins in food.

A significant increase in sodium content supports the view that sprouted foods offer
nutritional properties. Sodium is necessary for the digestive diseases, gastro-intestinal tract
and also to remove carbon dioxide. Together with the significant increase in vitamins,
Sodium significantly promote the easy digestibility of sprouts.
The dried seeds, grains and legumes do not contain any discernible traces of ascorbic acid, but when
Sprouted grains, they show very significant amounts, which are important for the body is able to
Metabolism of proteins. Continuous growing of ascorbic acid from their absorption
Without the elements during growth.

Sprouts are a number of other advantages. They provide food predigested, it is food --
That have already implemented are enzymes and easily digested. During
Incubation, a lot of strength in simple sugars like glucose and sucrose
the enzyme 'amylase'. Proteins are amino acids and amides. Fats
and oils are turned into simple fatty acids, whose enzyme lipase.
In a time of germination, the beans lose their harmful gas producing quality. Research has shown
that oligosaccharides are responsible for gas formation. Maintenance of health, some
Amount of gas production is necessary, but it should be in secure borders. As the process
germination ends and sprouting begins, the percentage of oligosaccharides, 90
Sprouts contain much more fiber and water, and therefore it is beneficial in overcoming constipation.

The sprouts are a very cheap way to the concentration of vitamins and minerals
and enzymes. You have all the tools, the establishment of the nutrients in fruits and vegetables, and they are
"Living" foods. Eating sprouts is the safest and best way to take advantage of the fruit and
Vegetables without contamination and harmful insecticides.

However, it is certain that the seeds and dried beans purchased for storage, the
they are fresh, unsprayed and packaged foods. Semen, packaged for planting purposes
contain mercury compounds or other toxic chemicals.
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