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.
Several weeks ago, I shared new microgreens beverage research in a commercial growers group. The response from one enterprise-scale operator stopped me cold. They had run the numbers, sat across from nutraceutical buyers, and watched the unit economics fail. Their…
Microgreens are some of the most nutrient-dense food on the planet, and most home growers eat them happily for years without a single problem. But about once a month, someone like my neighbor Marty asks me a worried question after reading something online. "Are these things actually safe?" Yes, with three specific exceptions worth knowing about.
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