Micro Greens

Peas

About this Micro Green:

Peas are a powerhouse of nutrition and strong anti-oxidants. Peas have such high-quality protein that they are now added to many meals and commercial protein products. In taste, pea tendril micro greens are slightly sweet, with a mild bitter aftertaste, and they have a nutty undertone. The leaves have a texture similar to spinach, although not as delicate. Pea tendrils add freshness and a little crunch to dishes with rich and earthy flavors. Peas micro greens are low fat but high everything else. They contain protein, fiber, omega-3 and micronutrients. Rich in folate, carbohydrates, vitamin A, C, E, B1, B2, B3, B6.

Health Benefits of Peas:

  • Antioxidant
  • Helps prevent stomach cancer
  • Slows aging
  • Prevents wrinkles
  • Enhance the immune system
  • Helps protect from Alzheimer
  • Protects from Osteoporosis
  • Contributes to regulate blood sugar level
  • Prevents arthritis
  • Reduces bad cholesterol
  • Beneficial for weight management
  • Helps keep bones healthy
  • Relieves constipation
  • Has anti-inflammatory properties

Sunflower

About this Micro Green:

Sunflower micro greens offer one of the most balanced forms of a complete plant protein around. It is one of the best food to add to your diet for overall health and wellbeing. It has a strong stem and green leaves. The taste is fresh and crunchy. Delicious eaten as a
snack or in any salad, sandwich, wrap or culinary creation. Sunflower micro greens are low in calories and high in nutrition, making them ideal for any natural and healthy fat loss program. They are a great source of valuable nutrients including proteins, enzymes, folic acid, selenium, lecithin, minerals, including calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, potassium, phosphorous, zinc as well as vitamins A, C, Complex D and E.

Health Benefits of Sunflowers:

  • Contains lecithin which helps break down fatty acids
  • Activates cells in the immune system
  • Helps build skeletal, muscular, and neurological systems
  • Boosts your fertility
  • Aids in stress relief
  • Prevents arthritis
  • Antioxidant
  • Helps eliminate accumulated cholesterol in arterial walls
  • Improves regeneration of blood supply
  • Revitalizes tissues
  • Calms inflammation
  • Activates deodorizing the body
  • Natural expectorant
  • Helps prevent heart disease

Broccoli

About this Micro Green:

The Broccoli Raab micro greens add a coarsely flavor to your meal. It is composed of smalls light green delicate leaves over a white stem. Contains soluble fibers, indole-3-carbonol (I3C), folate, sulfur, and a wide variety of minerals and vitamins C, K.

Health Benefits of Broccoli:

  • Detox and heals
  • Antioxidant
  • Increases protection from bacterial and viral infections
  • Reduces cancer risk
  • Protects against heart diseases
  • Regulation of blood sugar and insulin dependence
  • Prevents both hyper and hypoglycemia
  • Slows progression of AIDS
  • Slows aging
  • Contribute in DNA Repair and protection
  • Protects against dementia
  • Alleviates hypertension
  • Alleviates cardiovascular disease
  • Improves eyesight
  • Protects from Alzheimer
  • Protects from Osteoporosis
  • Helps in strike prevention
  • Reduces risk of Type II diabetes
  • Lowers frequency of migraine headaches
  • Helps in preventing Epileptic seizures
  • Prevents spot baldness
  • Alleviates inflammation
  • Minimizes premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)

Arugula

About this Micro Green:

Considered as one of the most useful and healthiest natural superfood, this plant adds a health supplement to a variety of menus. Arugula is also known as rocket. The Arugula micro green is flavorful with a peppery taste. The leaf is similar to the oak leaf. It is a great source of folic acid, iron, copper and a variety of minerals and vitamins A, C and K.

Health Benefits of Arugula:

  • Boost for bone and brain health
  • Detoxifying food
  • Reduce risk of cancer
  • Boosts healthy bones
  • Antioxidant
  • Improves eyesight
  • Good for healthy skin
  • Improves mineral absorption
  • Activates the immune system
  • Beneficial for weight management
  • Natural aphrodisiac
  • Lowers blood pressure
  • Protects the aging brain and cognitive decline
  • Reduces the amount of oxygen needed during exercise & enhances athletic performance
  • Helps keep body hydrated

Wheatgrass

About this Micro Green:

Wheatgrass may appear like a simple grass, but it is actually among the most powerful natural detoxifying agents, since it is one of Nature’s richest source of chlorophyll and live enzymes. In fact, it has been said that one ounce of wheatgrass is equivalent in
nutritional value to more than 2 pounds of leafy green vegetables. From diminishing the appetite, to reducing body odors and preventing cancer, wheatgrass has a place in your diet. Wheatgrass contains more than 90 minerals, including potassium, calcium, magnesium and sodium as well as essential enzymes and 19 amino acids.

Health Benefits of Wheatgrass:

  • Diminishes appetite. 1 wheatgrass shot in the morning prevents overeating
  • Stimulates circulation: apply wheatgrass juice on skin to dilate bloodvessel
  • Improves digestion
  • Alleviates arthritis. Its chlorophyll fights the inflammation
  • Help getting rid of bad breath and body odors
  • Treats skin wounds
  • Prevents tooth decay
  • Cleanses the liver
  • Treats sunburns
  • Stabilizes blood sugar level
  • Clears sinus congestion
  • Contributes in regenerating skin cells
  • Helps in acne treatment
  • Prevents cancer
  • Boost immunity
  • Natural expectorant
  • Antioxidant
  • Helps prevent heart disease

Mung Beans

About this Micro Green:

Mung beans (Vigna radiata) are small, green beans that belong to the legume family. They have been cultivated since ancient times. While native to India, mung beans later spread to China and various parts of Southeast Asia. These beans have a slightly sweet taste and are sold fresh, as sprouts or as dried beans. Mung beans are incredibly versatile and typically eaten in salads, soups, and stir-frys.

Health Benefits of Mung Beans:

  • 22% of Vitamin B1 intake, and contains Vitamin B2, B3, B5, and B6
  • Gives the body sufficient energy, healthy supply of fat of less than one gram; fibres, and even carbs
  • Cup of mung bean microgreens contains 15% of the reference daily intake of potassium
  • 30% daily intake of reference daily intake for magnesium
  • Antioxidants: offer protection for the cells in our bodies; reduces risk of developing diseases and cancers
  • Reduction in high blood pressure
  • Mung beans’s fibre and starch aids activities that occur in body’s digestive system.
  • Helps the body digest faster and reduces flatulence
  • High concentration of fibre and protein which reduce hunger hormones
  • Health pregnancy benefits

Radish

About this Micro Green:

Radish is well known all around the world. The radish micro greens are very nutritious and popular. Many varieties of radish are available with different colors from ranges of red-pink- purple to yellow and green. The radish micro green is crispy, and its taste is sweet and pleasantly peppery also. The radish microgreen is a
good source of vitamin C, energy and carbohydrates. It also contains zinc, potassium, folate, manganese, copper, sodium, phosphorus, dietary fiber, niacin, riboflavin, vitamin B1 & B6, calcium, iron, magnesium and so much more.

Health Benefits of Radishes:

  • Natural diuretic
  • Anti-fungal and anti-bacterial
  • Detoxifying food
  • Has anti-inflammatory properties
  • Helps prevent lungs cancer
  • Recommended in jaundice treatment
  • Contributes to purifying the blood
  • Beneficial for weight management
  • Proven to be beneficial in urinary disorders
  • Helps with constipation
  • Helps cleanse the body
  • Soothes the digestive system
  • Relieves congestion, good for allergies, infections or colds

Basil

About this Micro Green:

Basil is a common aromatic herb in the mint family, the same plant family as other nutrient-dense, beneficial herbs, including mint, oregano and rosemary. The taste is sweet, but savory, and just like the smell, it is peppery, yet ever so slightly minty. Basil, of course, is used to add flavor to a variety of recipes, but what may surprise you is the many benefits of basil that make it well-known for its immunity-enhancing properties and is one of the most important medical herbs known today. Basil has vitamin A, K, C and manganese.

Health Benefits of Basil:

  • Contains disease-fighting antioxidants
  • Anti-inflammatory
  • Fights cancer
  • Antibacterial Properties
  • Antimicrobial Properties that fight viruses and infections
  • Combats stress
  • Fights depression
  • Promotes cardiovascular health
  • Supports liver function and helps detoxify the body
  • Helps alkalize the body and improves digestion
  • Acts as a natural aphrodisiac
  • Protects from diabetes and metabolic syndrome

Beets

About this Micro Green:

Beets are from the same family as chard and spinach. Beets have so many benefits that it would be a shame not to incorporate them to your daily food diet. Beets provide a well-being sensation while reducing stress. Beet micro greens have a slight sweet flavor and bring a colorful touch with its bright red stem and the
contrasting darker green leaves. Beets are low in fat, rich in fiber, iron, nitrate, folic acid, minerals, and vitamins. Beets are also charged with powerful antioxidants. Promotes muscle oxygenation while exercising, which has the potential to reduce
fatigue and raise the energy level and increase tolerance to endurance training. The pectin contained in beets help remove toxins and heavy metals from the body.

Health Benefits of Beets:

  • Detoxifying and healing power
  • Anti-stress
  • Helps de-grease the body
  • Powerful antioxidant
  • Increases immune function
  • Help protects against heart disease
  • Slows aging
  • Contributes in DNA repair and protection
  • Alleviates cardiovascular disease
  • Helps protect from Alzheimer’s
  • Helps protect from osteoporosis
  • Stroke prevention
  • Reduces risk of Type II diabetes
  • Reduces frequency of migraine Headaches
  • Alleviates premenstrual syndrome (PMS)
  • Prevention of epileptic seizures
  • Prevents alopecia (spot baldness)
  • Alleviates hypertension

What is Jute?

Jute is a long, soft, shiny bast fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. The jute mats that we grow our microgreens from easily absorb water.

If you don’t see the micro greens you want, please contact Sebastian Aldana Jr. at foundation@theterracefoundation.org, and we can start producing them.