I pulled up our own lettuce microgreens page to check a number, and the number was wrong. The nutrition table on it was the USDA record for a full-grown head of lettuce, printed under a heading that said microgreens. There is no USDA entry for a seedling, so somebody reached for the closest thing. This is the rebuild, from the studies up.
Broccoli microgreens are one of the most nutrient-dense things you can grow on a windowsill. This is the full breakdown: the vitamins, the minerals, the calories, and how the young plant stacks up against the mature head. The data comes from published studies, not guesses. Sulforaphane gets a mention too, but it's one part of a bigger nutrition picture.
When my friend Alex brought me a packet of chia seeds, I had to tell him I had switched to growing them as microgreens instead. Most chia microgreen nutrition data online is actually borrowed from seed charts. Here is what researchers have measured in the microgreen itself, and what the science still does not show.
Growing up, steamed cabbage with cod fish was a staple on my plate. Years later I put a handful of red cabbage microgreens on the same dish and wondered what the seedling had that the head did not. So I read every paper that measured it. One laboratory measured it twice and got two very different numbers, and that is the story.
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