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Introducing Microgreens: Younger, And Maybe More Nutritious, Vegetables

… seedlings so small, and so young, they’re called microgreens.

The advantages of these tiny leaves less than 14 days old are many …

Now it seems there’s some scientific muster to back that claim.Gene Lester, a researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and his colleagues at University of Maryland, College Park, have conducted the first scientific analysis of nutrients in microgreens. The results, Lester tells The Salt, “totally knocked me over.”