Sprouts the Miracle Food; The Complete Guide to Sprouting 1999 Edition

by Steve Meyerowitz, Michael Parman, Michael Parman (Illustrator), Walter Scott (Photographer)

Overview

Step-by-step, learn how to grow delicious indoor greens and baby vegetables -- in just one week from seed to salad. Includes extensive nutrition charts, seed resources, and questions and answers with Sproutman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781878736048
Publisher:	Sproutman Publications
Publication date:	07/28/2002
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Steve was pronounced "Sproutman" in a 1977 Vegetarian Times Magazine feature article that explored the why's and wherefores of his 100% sprout diet. While over 2 decades time, most diets change, Steve is still a believer in living foods and one of the most prominent spokespersons for sprouting. Steve got interested in sprouts after a 20 year effort to correct chronic allergies and asthma with conventional medicine. He made dramatic changes in diet and within two months of eating a strict "living foods," vegetarian diet, his lifelong symptoms disappeared. He continued to practice a 100% raw foods diet (nothing cooked, packaged, canned, frozen or processed) for five years. During that time, he also experimented with other extreme diets such as fruitarianism (just fruit) and fasted for as long as 100 days.

Steve's innovative kitchen gardening techniques and the cuisine he developed from them, gave rise to a "School for Sprouts." He began teaching indoor gardening 12 stories above the streets of New York City. He called his no-cooking school, the Sprout House. Steve invented two home sprouters, the Flax Sprout Bag and the Sprout House Kitchen Garden Salad Kit. He supplied these growing kits and a full line of organic sprouting seeds to consumers nationwide via mail order.

Steve has since sold the Sprout House mail order business and he and his family now live and breathe fresher air in the Berkshire mountains in Massachusetts, 2½ hours north of Manhattan. Much of those teaching years have been transcribed in his books. He has written such sprout-worthy titles as "Sprouts the Miracle Food," "Sproutman's Kitchen Garden Cookbook," "Wheatgrass Nature's Finest Medicine," and "Sproutman's Turn-the-Dial Sprout Chart"-a portable, photo-field guide to sprouting. Steve has been featured on the Home Shopping Network, TV Food Network, in Prevention, Organic Gardening and Flower & Garden Magazines. In 3 minutes on QVC, 953 people ordered his Cookbook and Tabletop Greenhouse.

Read an Excerpt

Not all of us can be gardeners. But we all eat. Fact is, if you don't grow your own, someone has to do it for you. Not a bad concept, but in reality, we're on the losing end. A trip to the supermarket proves it. The lettuce is lifeless; the spinach is wilting and dark around the edges. You don't dare eat the fruit for fear of fumigants, fertilizers, pesticides and the like. As a nation, we're eating less and less of the healthiest foods on the planet-fresh fruit and vegetables. Where are the fruits and vegetables? For the most part, you'll find them in the canned food aisle. No wonder kids grow up never liking their vegetables! Of course, you could shop at the health food store. But organic produce some-times cost more than you want to spend-if you can find it at all. Unfortunately, we don't all live in southern California and we don't all have the time or means to garden.

Here's where apartment gardening comes in. Every week a new harvest of fresh baby greens matures right in your own kitchen. No tools to buy, no big investment in garden equipment, no bugs or weather to worry about and no dirt. One pound of indoor lettuce takes up just 9 inches of counter-top space and one actual minute of care per day. Just dip and set. Light is no problem-normal daylight is all you need. For such little effort, the possibilities are magnificent--- 30delicious varieties of fresh, nutritious indoor greens and baby vegetables, enough to feed the whole family!

Table of Contents

(Partial 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

What 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

S E E D S

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

Editorial Reviews

This is definitely the complete guide to the seeds and tools necessary to cultivate hundreds of pounds of food. ... A book overflowing with information. There is an integrity of good health here. And Meyerowitz writes with just the right pent-up passion to make converts of us all.

Book Reader Magazine

This guide can make anyone a self-sufficient gardener of sprouts that are bursting with concentrated nutrition. And no one says it better than the man of greens himself-the Sproutman.

Natural Foods Merchandiser

Meyerowitz is definitely the Sproutman. We never knew there were so many sprouts --- so many flavors and textures. ... The medicinal properties of these little plants, not to mention their prodigious nutrition does indeed make them a miracle food.

Healthy Times Magazine