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Homegrown Sprouts + Freshlife Automatic Sprouter
December 6, 2008
The benefits of including sprouts in our diet are enormous, and a tasty way to invest in our overall health. Each tiny sprout is loaded with nourishing concentrations of enzymes, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, proteins, and more. Sprouting seeds and cereal grasses is a delicious and economical way to add a valuable food source to our diet.
Our friends at Tribest, a leading designer of high-quality small kitchen appliances for healthy lifestyles, offer one Freshlife Automatic Sprouter for our first healthy holiday giveaway. Thank you Tribest for your generous gift contribution!
Along with the Freshlife Sprouter unit, one of our readers will also receive:
Freshlife Wheatgrass Growing Pads to help eliminate tangled roots and control the development of mold.
and
Sproutman’s Organic Garden Mix Seeds, a garden mix of alfalfa, canola, red clover, and radish seeds.
Using Tribest’s Freshlife Automatic Sprouter is an effortless way to add fresh sprouts to your diet. It is so easy to use, just fill the basin with water, add your choice of seeds, and plug it in! There is no need to worry about watering, this unit has a built in sprinkler system, which delivers a continuous supply of water to your growing sprouts.
Depending on the type of seeds, it can takes anywhere from 4 to 8 days to yield a crop of nutritious and delicious sprouts, wheatgrass, or micro-greens.
If you are an avid sprouter, you can easily expand this unit to create double the capacity with an additional sprout barrel. The more sprouts, the better. Harvest and enjoy your favorite fresh, nutritious, and tender sprouts anytime, year round, right in your own kitchen!
I like a variety of sprouts, some I prefer more than others. Alfalfa, broccoli [first picture above], cabbage, mung bean, and sunflower sprouts are some I eat often. For a spicy kick, every blue moon I’ll have garlic chive sprouts. How about you?
What are your favorite sprouts, and how often do you enjoy them?
Answering this question automatically enters you as a participant in this draw.
Happy Sprouting!
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Lentils are staple food in Spain (where I’m from), so they are definetly my favorite. I eat lentil sprout EVERY single day, I just can’t get enough!
I also like alfalfa though, eat them twice a week.
I truly believe sprouts are essential. That said, I keep telling myself that as soon as my cabin is built, I’ll actually start eating them. LOL. Sad, but true. I’ve been putting this off. Kind of like, one major new thing at a time. But the more I hear about sprouts, the better it all seems. :o)
I love pea shots. I just like to toss them on salads. Peas are the best! At the moment I buy sprouts which isn’t very cost effective. I need to start home sprouting.
My favorite are lentil sprouts, quickly stir-fried with kale and garlic. We usually make a batch every few weeks.
Mmm broccoli sprouts! I probably don’t get enough sprouts in my diet, but I throw some on my salad every time I hit up the salad bar!
I’m still pretty new to raw foods so I haven’t tried many sprouts outside of Alfalfa. I love to top my salads w/them. I also added them to my nori rolls.
I LOVE crunchy sprouts – Mung Bean,Lentils, and Adzuki – in my salads and wraps. I also like to include a handful of sweet pea sprouts in my green juice in the morning.
I really like sunflower greens and buckwheat lettuce – buckwheat is my favorite. Wheatgrass is really beneficial, too. I haven’t sprouted since I moved recently. I don’t have my house set up for it. And it isn’t as easy as it should be to get organic dirt and compost in the winter. That’s what is holding me up.
I love alfalfa, they’re definitely my favourite and I eat them every day. But I’ll sprout anything! I love lentils, chickpeas, wheat (to make essene bread).
I think my favorite are sweet pea sprouts, followed closely by clover sprouts. I would love to be able to sprout the sweet pea’s but I haven’t seen the seeds for purchase anywhere.
Ingrid, I was also wondering if you know if there is a significant decrease in the nutrition when we sprout via jar (and water) as opposed to in dirt.
Char, thank you for your question. It is a very good question. I’ve often wondered this myself. I’ve made a phone call and will hopefully have an answer for you early next week.
Organic Pea Sprout sources for your consideration
Snow pea sprouting seeds can be found at Natural Zing.
Another online source is Sprout People. They offer Pea Seeds and Sweet Pea Sprout Mix.
I’ve always known about the health benefits of sprouts but just haven’t know how to grow them. It seems like a complicated process to me so this automatic sprouter sounds like a Godsend haha. My favorite sprouts are alfalfa sprouts and I probably eat them once a month or so.
Thanks Ingrid! This is so much fun!
Oh, I don’t know what I’d do without my alfalfa sprouts! I make a new batch every 10 days or so. I find that once you start enjoying the homegrown sprouts, the store-bought stuff is, well, just so unappealing. I also really like sunflower sprouts but haven’t had much success with the soil method. I’m thinking that the Freshlife Sprouter looks like it would be up to the task with a lot less fuss.
I really enjoy red clover. :)
Hi Joy and welcome!
I truly enjoy a mix of radish, broccoli and clover sprouts. It is a very tender mix that I can mix into anything. The flavor is spicy but light.
Welcome to Raw Epicurean Nora!
Hi Folks;
As for my favourite sprouts I would have to say that sunflower are my favourite for flavour but brocoli and kale I also enjoy as well. I always have sprout growing in my house. Anything from wheatgrass to mung beans to alfalfa. You name it and I will sprout it.
I have two freshlife sprouters, one with a double barrell. The only time that they rest is when I am cleaning them.
Please let me know if this is enough to qualify.
Thank you and take care, Paul LeMay. Bracebridge, Ontario. Canada.
P.S. Lots of snow and cold here.
Hi Paul – two Freshlife Sprouters! You’re not kidding around, that’s great! Stay warm.
Although I’m always down for most sprouts, I really do like alfalfa the most. The flavor is so mild and they’re so versatile! Unfortunately, I buy all my sprouts because it just seems like so much for to grow them.
Sweet pea sprouts are definitely my favorite. I can use them on almost anything.
But all of this talk of lentil sprouts has me running to the kitchen to start a batch!
I like sunflower seed sprouts, pea shots and onion sprouts. Alfalfa is essential in our household, we eat them daily.
Hi Sue and welcome!
I LOVE alfalfa sprouts, lentil sprouts, quinoa sprouts and garbanzo sprouts. Quinoa sprouts are very cute, and versatile too!!
I love sweet pea shoots and sunflower sprouts. They are great on salad and in sushi! I’d like to try my hand at growing broccoli sprouts. I bought grow lights, so I’d like to eat sprouts every week if I can master the art of growing sprouts in winter.
This might be embarrassing, but I have only had one kind of sprouts–the kind sold at the grocery store. I have no idea WHAT they sprouted out of.
Suddenly that feels very uncomfortable.
I (accidentally) sprouted my lentils once and then read up more about it. However, primarily I’ve eaten what I call “salad bar” sprouts. I don’t know the origin but they’re great on salads and sandwiches!
I’m sadly not eating enough sprouts, I fail with sprouting all the time. My favorites are luzern and alfalfa and for a spicy raw sandwich onion and raddish sprouts, yumm.
I love alfalfa sprouts but haven’t been able to grow them yet…they always turn slimy due to the fact that I don’t change the water often enough…I think?
I love sunflower seed sprouts because they always seem to come out good – I think they just might be the easier beginner sprouts. I also really love the sweet flavor of sprouted wheat.
I typically eat lentil, pea, and mung bean sprouts 4-5 days out of the week. They are delicious! I eat alfalfa, peanut, and chickpea sprouts too, though less often.
Lentils sprouts I have nearly daily in the summer time
But sunflowers are the best–just kind of a pain