Sprouts The Miracle Food The Complete Guide to Sprouting by Steve Meyerowitz ISBN: 1-878736-04-3 Sproutman Publications, July, 1999 Paperback 224 pages $12.95 Let the Sproutman show you the joys of indoor organic gardening. Learn how to grow delicious baby greens and mini-vegetables -- just one week from seed to salad. This guide can make anyone a self sufficient gardener of sprouts that are bursting with concentrated nutrition. Includes the most comprehensive nutrition charts on sprouts in print, plus common questions and answers, Seed Resource section, illustrations, photo's & charts. From the Back Cover of Sprouts The Miracle Food The Agriculture of Tomorrow is Here TodayTM Our grandparents bought their food from the local farm. Today, it flies in on airplanes after being sprayed with chemicals, irradiated, and genetically altered. It's enough to topple the Jolly Green Giant....or give him cancer. Can we keep our food pure, fresh, local, and available year round- Yes! For the price of beans! As the world population multiplies, the kitchen of tomorrow will grow food in addition to preparing it. Why wait? The secrets to creating self-sufficient, organic meals are just pages away. The Kitchen of Tomorrow Will Grow Food in Addition to Preparing It Your friends & family will delight in eating fresh, organic young vegetables in the middle of the winter. Sprouts are baby plants at their most nutritious stage. They're bubbling with enzymes and phyto-chemicals. You can feel their vitamins! Twice the protein of Spinach! Four times the protein of lettuce. Flavors like succulent buckwheat lettuce, hearty baby sunflowers and spicy garlic chives. Introduce them into your kitchen and bring sunshine to your diet. No green thumb and no soil necessary. It's easy. It's fun. This book shows you how. About the author: Steve Meyerowitz, suffering from a lifetime of allergies and asthma, began a journey to better health in 1975. Becoming disappointed with orthodox medicine, he used diet and fasting to restore his health. In 1980, he founded The Sprout House, a "non" cooking school in New York City. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Regaining My Health My Apartment Garden Fed Hundreds World's Most Economical & Nutritious Food Small Investment The Agriculture of Tomorrow is Here Today SPROUT IT! Vertical Germination Of Seeds Multiple Generations Why Not A Jar Advantages Of A Vertical Sprouter THE TECHNIQUE Create Your Own Sprouter 5 Easy Steps to Health! Wash Seeds and Baskets Soaking Seed How To Rinse Three Methods of Rinsing How to Drain How to Harvest When to Harvest Number of Days To Maturity Harvest Times For Chlorophyll Sprouts Which Seeds To Sprout? How To Set Up Your Kitchen Hydroponic Vs. Soil Grown GROWING GRAINS & BEANS How to Use A Sprout Bag The Jar vs. The Sprout Bag The Sprout Bag for Gelatinous Seeds Other Uses For Your Sprout Bag AFTER THEY'VE GROWN Life Expectancy Refrigeration About Light Cleaning Seed Hulls Cleaning Sick Sprouts Fear of Mold Hydrogen Peroxide For Prevention of Mold SEEDS Over 30 Varieties---Their Tastes and Growing Times Wheatgrass Gelatinous Seeds On Growing Garlic & Onion Getting Organic Seeds Characteristics of Good Sprouting Seed Storage of Seeds NUTRITION The Miracle of Germination Protein Content of Sprouts + Other Vegetarian Foods Protein Comparison Of Lettuce & Sprouts Trace Mineral Content of Sprouts and Seeds Mineral Content of Fresh Sprouted Beans Vs. Other Vegetarian Foods Vitamin Content of Sprouts Sprouts Are More Than Nutrients! Energy Content of Sprouts vs. Other Vegetarian Foods Radish Sprouts vs. Mature Radish Vegetable Digesting Sprouted Beans NATURAL TOXINS IN BEANS Do Natural Toxins in Beans Help or Hurt? Anti-Oxidants & Anti-Carcinogens EARTH & WATER Pesticides The 12 Most Infamous Agricultural Chemicals Foods Containing The Highest Pesticide Residues Using Pure Water for You and Sprouts How To Choose A Water Purifying Device Mechanical Purifiers & Filters Distillers COMPOSTING Building A Composter Growing Soil-Free Buckwheat, Sunflower, Wheatgrass How To Use Wheatgrass MIXING N' MATCHING SEEDS Liquid Kelp---Nature's Finest Fertilizer Sprouting Gelatinous Seeds Commercial Sprouters Automatic Sprouters Questions & Answers with Sproutman Review of Technique SPROUTING SEED CHART RESOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ORDER  |  TOP