Sprouts The Miracle Food Book
By Sproutman Steve Meyerowitz
Let the Sproutman show you the joys of indoor organic gardening. Learn how to grow delicious baby greens and mini-vegetables -- just one week from seed to salad. This guide can make anyone a self sufficient gardener of sprouts that are bursting with concentrated nutrition. Includes the most comprehensive nutrition charts on sprouts in print, plus common questions and answers, Seed Resource section, illustrations, photo's & charts. From the Back Cover of Sprouts The Miracle Food
The Agriculture of Tomorrow is Here TodayTM
Our grandparents bought their food from the local farm. Today, it flies in on airplanes after being sprayed with chemicals, irradiated, and genetically altered. It's enough to topple the Jolly Green Giant....or give him cancer. Can we keep our food pure, fresh, local, and available year round- Yes! For the price of beans! As the world population multiplies, the kitchen of tomorrow will grow food in addition to preparing it. Why wait? The secrets to creating self-sufficient, organic meals are just pages away.
The Kitchen of Tomorrow Will Grow Food in Addition to Preparing It
Your friends & family will delight in eating fresh, organic young vegetables in the middle of the winter. Sprouts are baby plants at their most nutritious stage. They're bubbling with enzymes and phyto-chemicals. You can feel their vitamins! Twice the protein of Spinach! Four times the protein of lettuce. Flavors like succulent buckwheat lettuce, hearty baby sunflowers and spicy garlic chives. Introduce them into your kitchen and bring sunshine to your diet. No green thumb and no soil necessary. It's easy. It's fun. This book shows you how.
About the author: Steve Meyerowitz, suffering from a lifetime of allergies and asthma, began a journey to better health in 1975. Becoming disappointed with orthodox medicine, he used diet and fasting to restore his health. In 1980, he founded The Sprout House, a "non" cooking school in New York City.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Regaining My Health
My Apartment Garden Fed Hundreds
World's Most Economical & Nutritious Food
Small Investment
The Agriculture of Tomorrow is Here Today
SPROUT IT!
Vertical Germination Of Seeds
Multiple Generations
Why Not A Jar
Advantages Of A Vertical Sprouter
THE TECHNIQUE
Create Your Own Sprouter
5 Easy Steps to Health!
Wash Seeds and Baskets
Soaking Seed
How To Rinse
Three Methods of Rinsing
How to Drain
How to Harvest
When to Harvest
Number of Days To Maturity
Harvest Times For Chlorophyll Sprouts
Which Seeds To Sprout?
How To Set Up Your Kitchen
Hydroponic Vs. Soil Grown
GROWING GRAINS & BEANS
How to Use A Sprout Bag
The Jar vs. The Sprout Bag
The Sprout Bag for Gelatinous Seeds
Other Uses For Your Sprout Bag
AFTER THEY'VE GROWN
Life Expectancy
Refrigeration
About Light
Cleaning Seed Hulls
Cleaning Sick Sprouts
Fear of Mold
Hydrogen Peroxide For Prevention of Mold
SEEDS
Over 30 Varieties---Their Tastes and Growing Times
Wheatgrass
Gelatinous Seeds
On Growing Garlic & Onion
Getting Organic Seeds
Characteristics of Good Sprouting Seed
Storage of Seeds
NUTRITION
The Miracle of Germination
Protein Content of Sprouts + Other Vegetarian Foods
Protein Comparison Of Lettuce & Sprouts
Trace Mineral Content of Sprouts and Seeds
Mineral Content of Fresh Sprouted Beans Vs. Other Vegetarian Foods
Vitamin Content of Sprouts
Sprouts Are More Than Nutrients!
Energy Content of Sprouts vs. Other Vegetarian Foods
Radish Sprouts vs. Mature Radish Vegetable
Digesting Sprouted Beans
NATURAL TOXINS IN BEANS
Do Natural Toxins in Beans Help or Hurt?
Anti-Oxidants & Anti-Carcinogens
EARTH & WATER
Pesticides
The 12 Most Infamous Agricultural Chemicals
Foods Containing The Highest Pesticide Residues
Using Pure Water for You and Sprouts
How To Choose A Water Purifying Device
Mechanical Purifiers & Filters
Distillers
COMPOSTING
Building A Composter
Growing Soil-Free Buckwheat, Sunflower, Wheatgrass
How To Use Wheatgrass
MIXING N' MATCHING SEEDS
Liquid Kelp---Nature's Finest Fertilizer
Sprouting Gelatinous Seeds
Commercial Sprouters
Automatic Sprouters
Questions & Answers with Sproutman
Review of Technique
SPROUTING SEED CHART
RESOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
