A Powerful Way to Avoid Vitamin & Mineral Supplementation

Fats and oils are converted into more simple fatty acids by the action of the enzyme lipase. During sprouting, the beans lose their objectionable gas producing quality. Research has shown that oligosaccharides are responsible for gas formation. For maintenance of health, some amount of gas production is necessary but it should be within safe limits. As the process of germination ends and sprouting begins, the percentage of oligosaccharides is reduced by 90.

Sprouts contain a lot of fibre and water and, therefore, are helpful in overcoming constipation.Sprouts are an extremely inexpensive method of obtaining a concentration of vitamins, minerals and enzymes. They have in them all the constituent nutrients of fruits and vegetables and are ‘live’ foods. Eating sprouts is the safest and best way of getting the advantage of both fruits and vegetables without contamination and harmful insecticides.

And…here is some really interesting info.

There is an amazing increase in nutrients in sprouted foods when compared to their dried embryo. In the process of sprouting, the vitamins, minerals and protein increase substantially with corresponding decrease in calories and carbohydrate content. These comparisons are based on an equivalent water content in the foods measured. Analysis of dried seeds, grains and legumes shows a very low water content. But this increases upto tenfold when the same food is converted into sprouts. For accurate comparison each must be brought to a common denomination of equal water content to assess the exact change brought in nutritional value.

Sprouted mung beans, for instance, have a 8.3 increase of water content over dried beans. Hence the nutritional value of sprouted and dried mung beans can be compared by multiplying the analysed nutrients of sprouted mung beans by the factor of 8.3.

Based on this criterion, the changes found in sprouted mung beans when compared with the figures for the beans in the dried state are as follows:

• 15% decrease in Energy content (calories)
• 15% decrease in Total carbohydrate content
• 30% increase in Protein availability t
• 34% increase in Calcium content
• 80% increase in Potassium content
• 690% increase in Sodium content
• 40% increase in Iron content
• 56% increase in Phosphorous content
• 285% increase in Vitamin A content
• 208% increase in Thiamine or Vitamin B1 content
• 515% increase in Riboflavin or Vitamin B2 content
• 256% Niacin or Vitamin B3 content
• Infinite increase in Ascorbic Acid or Vitamin C content

The increase in protein availability is of great significance. It is a valuable indicator of the enhanced nutritional value of a food when sprouted. The simultaneous reduction in carbohydrate content indicates that many carbohydrate molecules are broken down during sprouting to allow an absorption of atmospheric nitrogen and reforming into amino-acids. The resultant protein is the most easily digestible of all proteins available in foods.

The remarkable increase in sodium content supports the view that sprouted foods offer nutritional qualities. Sodium is essential to the digestive process within the gastro-intestinal tract and also to the elimination of carbon dioxide. Together with the remarkable increase in vitamins, sodium materially contributes to the easy digestibility of sprouts. Dried seeds, grains and legumes do not contain discernible traces of ascorbic acid, yet when sprouted, they reveal quite significant quantities which are important in the body’s ability to metabolise proteins. The infinite increase in ascorbic acid derives from their absorption of atmospheric elements during growth. It should, however, be ensured that seeds and dried beans are purchased from a store where they are fresh, unsprayed and packaged as food. Seeds that are packaged for planting purposesmay contain mercury compounds or other toxic chemicals.

So…yes…you might be able to avoid supplementation if you eat sprouts every day. The problem…who has sprouts avaiable to them all day…every day? Yes…some people have this avaialble to them, but most don’t. That is why I take vitamin and mineral supplements and  you should too.