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Health Benefits of Sprouts
Highly Alkaline to Balance Your pH
Sprouts themselves are among the most alkaline foods. They are living plant foods that are biogenic - meaning they can transfer their life energy to you. Seeds become more alkaline as they sprout. Eating them helps maintain the acid alkaline balance in the body. Many of the foods we eat today are either acidic or neutral, with very little alkaline balanced foods. Without enough alkaline foods to re-balance the pH of our body many of our systems don't work efficiently leading to disease
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Full of Enzymes - Enzymes are special types of proteins that act as catalysts for all your body's functions. Enzymes are needed to extract the vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fatty acids from the foods you eat.
We show signs of aging like wrinkled skin, low energy and fragile bones when our body doesn't produce enough of the enzymes needed to extract the vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids from the foods we eat. We need enzymes t to ensure that or body has the nutritional building blocks of life to make every process work more effectively. Eating sprouts increases the available enzymes and slows down the aging process.
Boosts Vitamin Content - Sprouting magnifies the nutritional value of the seed. The vitamin content of some seeds, grains, beans, or nuts increases by up to 20 times the original value within only a few days of sprouting. It boosts the B-vitamin content, triples the amount of vitamin A and increases vitamin C by a factor of 5 to 6 times. Research shows that during the sprouting process mung beansprouts (the kind you find in Chinese food) increase in vitamin B1 by up to 285 percent, vitamin B2 by up to 515 percent, and niacin by up to 256 percent.
Good for Digestion - During sprouting, minerals bind to protein in the seed, grain, nut, or bean, making them more useable in the body. Their digestibility is rooted from the high amount of enzymes that they contain. Sprouted seeds, grains and legumes are said to break down the complex sugars responsible for intestinal gas. Eating sprouts can be very helpful for people with digestive or bloating problems. They are also perfect for children and elderly people.
High In Protein - Sprouted seeds, or sprouts such as alfalfa, contain high levels of protein.They can contain up to 35 percent protein. Adding sprouts to your diet will give you the necessary protein intake required by your body minus the fat, cholesterol, and calories that typically come with animal meats. Sprouts are also highly recommended for vegans and vegetarians.
High in Fiber - Sprouting actually grows fiber, living fiber. This fiber makes you feel full which helps you maintain your natural body weight. The fiber also binds to fats and toxins in your body to escort them out quickly before they can reabsorb through the walls of the intestines.
Given that a sprouting can be fast, simple and low cost to set-up, sprouts are the ideal food to compliment your diet in order to promote and enhance healthy bodily processes and maintain or improve your acid alkaline balance.
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Growing sprouts at home is like having a little garden in your kitchen. I am not a fan of buying store bought sprouts. It is safer to grown your own. Sprouts are grown from tiny seeds in water that must be changed several times a day to ensure that they are free of harmful bacteria. This water, which is sometimes murky and brackish in a commercial sprouting establishment is an excellent growth medium for bacteria. That is why FDA guidance says sprout producers ought to test the wash water for harmful bacteria, but sadly they don't always test with due diligence. When you make your own sprouts at home you know the water is clean. 
