What the research says about eating microgreens, and what it does not.
Most numbers you find about microgreens were measured in a different plant at a different stage. This page holds the reading instead: the studies crop by crop, the figures that survived checking, and the questions nobody has answered yet.
The most repeated numbers about microgreens were measured in a different plant at a different stage. That is the whole reason this page exists. I read the papers, keep what survives the table, and say plainly where the evidence runs out. Some crops lose that way. Those rows get printed too.
Start here
All nutrition pages →Five pages, picked by what people actually read over the last twenty-eight days rather than by what got published last.
The definitive list: 1,500+ types of microgreens you can grow
The most-read page on the site, and the one that shows how wide this goes.
91 reads in 28 daysWhat do microgreens taste like?
The first honest question, and the one most guides skip straight past.
30 reads in 28 daysPros and cons of microgreens
The cons half is the reason to trust the pros half.
28 reads in 28 daysThe beginner’s nutritional guide to incredible microgreens
The trunk of this wing. A hundred and nine pages here link back to it.
109 pages link to itMicrogreens vs. regular greens
The comparison everybody arrives wanting, with the numbers that held up.
Rewritten 2026Most asked
Six questions people type into a search box, each one answered on a page here rather than in a paragraph on this one.
The evidence
Each of these went back to the papers and to the USDA record before a single number stayed on the page. Where a figure turned out to belong to the grown plant, it came off.
Sunflower microgreens nutrition
Most sunflower numbers online were measured in the seed. This one measures the shoot.
Broccoli microgreens nutrition
Checked cell by cell against Xiao 2016 and de la Fuente 2019, and it came back clean.
Chia microgreens nutrition
A crop with less evidence behind it than people assume, said out loud.
Broccoli microgreens and bone health
The mice studies are named as mice studies.
Kale vs. sango radish microgreens
Two crops, one measuring stick, and a result worth arguing with.
Which part of this is yours?
Five questions about what you already eat and what you want to know. You get back a shortlist of pages and crops worth your time first, so you are not reading a hundred and thirty pages to find the four that apply to you. No account.
Two machines for this
Microgreens Research Assistant
Search a health claim about microgreens and you get ten answers with nothing behind them. Doc Green reads more than a thousand peer-reviewed papers and hands back the source along with the answer, including the times the honest answer is that nobody has measured it.
Ask the science →Microgreens Flavor Guide
You bought a clamshell, ran out of ideas by day three, and watched it go soft in the fridge. Pick any ingredient you already have and get pairings and recipes built around it.
Find my pairings →The guides
Complete Health Library Bundle
Six guides, one topic each: eyes, joints, skin, hair, blood sugar and keto eating. Each one collects what the published research measured on its topic, names the crops the studies actually used, and says where the evidence stops. Reading material, not a treatment plan.
Natural cosmetic formulations
Formulation methods for making skincare with microgreen extracts, with the ingredient cost of each one worked out beside what the shelf version costs. Written for people who would rather make it than buy it.
The Microgreens Method
Most people eat microgreens at random. A handful here, a smoothie there, no way of telling whether any of it did anything. The book takes you through an assessment in chapter four, then ninety days of eating and writing it down, so you have your own record at the end instead of a hunch.
Buy any format and the full PACT Toolkit adds on once for $47. It carries the assessment, the variety matching and the ninety days of tracking.
Tested picks
Five things people ask before they spend money on any of this. Answered by testing them.
Juicers
Most blenders shred the compounds you are buying these for. Which machines do not, at three price points.
Pick my juicer →Supplements next to microgreens
Before another bottle goes in the cupboard, what these already cover and what they do not.
Compare my options →Cooking tools
Shears, a dehydrator, a pot that holds heat. What turns a tray of greens into dinner instead of garnish.
Pick my kitchen tools →Microgreens in skincare
Microgreen extracts have reached the shelf. The three lines using them, and what is actually in the bottle.
See the three lines →The Easy Guide series
Five books of juices, meals and sandwiches, for when day three arrives and the ideas have run out.
Browse the series →As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
The stall that answers the hard question sells the bag
Everything above cites the reading. The Library is the reading: the tables themselves, crop by crop, what nobody has studied yet, and the row where each crop loses. If you sell what you grow, it is also the answer to the moment that decides the sale, when a customer holds up a bag and asks whether any of it is true.
I read the studies to table level and turn them into plain wording. What the evidence supports, what it does not, and the exact sentences a grower can stand behind. You spend ten minutes. The reading was my job.
Show me what I can say →In the wrong wing? The three doors are on the front page. Take me to the doors →
One letter a week, and the new reading lands there first
What the studies said this week, what did not survive checking, and which crop is on the reading pile next. Every new guide goes out here before it goes anywhere else.
This information is educational and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Talk with your physician before making significant changes to your diet or before using microgreens to address a health concern.
