sprouts

What Are the Health Benefits (and Risks) of Eating Raw Sprouts? - Cleveland Clinic Sprouts: You’ve probably encountered them before on a salad or a sandwich and thought little about them. Maybe you love them, maybe you skip them. Either way, chances are you probably don’t know a whole lot about...

Broccoli sprouts are three- to four-day-old broccoli plants that look like alfalfa sprouts, but taste like radishes. While health-conscious people in the 1970s embraced raw sprouts as a dietary staple, it was not until the 1990s that broccoli sprouts became the mainstream.

Sprouts are rich in digestible energy, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, proteins, and phytochemicals, as these are necessary for a germinating plant to grow. These nutrients are also essential to human health.