Saturday, October 17, 2009

Sprouts – A Mine for Nutrients

Sprouts is the best food offered to man by nature with its most nutritious value.
They have all types of vitamins and minerals. In short you can call this food a ‘mine’ for
nutritious value required by the body. It is a natural food full of life energy that enables
you to lead a natural life. They have natural enzymes hidden. It is very difficult for man
to survive exclusively on fruits and vegetables but if he can eat sprouts plentifully, he
doesn’t have to eat anything else, but lead a life without any ailment.
Advantages
1. If you compare the nutritious value of the sprouts with that of dry seeds,
the value of the former is surprisingly more.
2. At the time when the seeds start sprouting, the percentage of vitamins,
minerals and proteins increase enormously. The same way carbohydrates
reduce to a lower percentage.
3. There will be very little water content in dry seeds. Once we soak them in
water, there will be 10% water increase in the seeds (for sprouting). It
results in their multiplied nutritious value.
4. Why the sprouts are appreciated as the best food? Because they have
more of proteins that protect the body. During the period of sprouting, the
carbohydrates are separated very minutely, and the seeds absorb the
nitrogen prevalent in the atmosphere around. The carbohydrates are now
changed into amino acids that can be digested very easily. This is the
reason why content of carbohydrate is reduced more in the sprouts than
in dry seeds. So the proteins formed thus in the sprouts are more easily
digested than the proteins we eat through other food items.
The table given below shows you the increase in the percentage of nutritious
value in the sprouts against dry seeds. For example, beans seeds, when sprouted are
like this.
5. The sodium (salt) helps in quick digestion in stomach and small intestines.
It also helps in driving out carbon dioxide in the body. Since this sodium
content enormously increases in the sprouts, food can easily be digested.
6. Vitamin C content is very less in dry seeds and dry food. But when soaked
in water for sprouting the same seeds absorb the atmospheric values
increasing the percentage of C vitamin. C vitamin helps in defusing
proteins quickly and hastens the movement of iron into blood from
intestines.
7. Sprouts contain more of fibrous material that enables a free motion.
8. Sprouts by nature have more of water content because of which you don’t
feel thirsty while eating or after eating them.
Seeds which get sprouts: Wheat, barley, green gram, malt, green peas, ground
nuts and beans.

How to make sprouts: Soak green gram, malt, in water for 8 hours and then tie
them up in a dry cloth and keep them thus for 15 hours in a plate. Then the seed
sprout. The sprout will be roughly of one inch. Soak wheat for 12 hours in water,
remove them from water, pour them into a plate and let them dry in air in a cool
place for 8 hours. Afterwards if you tie them up in a cloth and keep them aside for a
day, you get big sprouts. You can soak groundnuts in water at night and eat in the
morning. You don’t have to wait till they are sprouted. Of course you should soak
these seeds separately for sprouting. You should not mix one with another.
How to eat them: Per day you can eat 2 or 3 or all varieties of sprouts. You should
eat each variety separately. Should not mix everything together for the simple
reason some sprouts are big in size whereas some are small. For example if you eat
groundnuts and malt together, the groundnuts that are big in size get grounded first
in your mouth. The tongue tries to drive inside its paste. Along with the churned
groundnut, the thin malt that gets stuck between teeth while eating is driven inside.
All seeds have an outer skin. It prevents the entry of digestive juices (acids) into the
seeds, in result they are not digested. The seeds that are not digested (which are not
chewed properly) come out of the body along with motion. In such case, there is no
point in eating the sprouts. So, it is better to eat each variety separately.


How much?
There is no prescribed quantity as such. One, two of your fistfuls. You can eat as
much as you can. It is better to eat a larger quantity. As a beginner, one can
increase the quantity gradually, day by day.
Initially you may experience gas problem. No worry, it subsides in no time.

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