Description
- Radish microgreens are substantial and crunchy, and taste exactly like a radish. Very easy and fast growers. Makes a great garnish or addition to any salad or sandwich. Use sparingly for a radish accent.
- Daikon Radish is a green crop with an intense radish flavor great in any microgreen salad or full-sized salad. Daikon is one of the most popular radishes to sprout as well. Use instead of sliced radish anywhere you would normally use radish. Radish greens have a pleasant peppery bite, whether raw or cooked. A hearty salad made with these greens offers enough nourishment to reduce the need for snacking. This obviously cuts your caloric intake, which stabilizes your daily diet.
- Radish microgreens are quickly becoming one of the most popular microgreens among chefs, “foodies,” and home growers. Not only because of their crisp and bold flavor, but because radish microgreens are very nutritious.
- Of the 25 microgreen varieties tested, daikon radish, red cabbage, garnet amaranth, and cilantro carried the highest vitamin C concentrations, carotenoids, vitamin K, and vitamin E, respectively.
- A growing number of peer-reviewed studies have reported that radish microgreens provide multiple crucial medical benefits due to their rich nutritional components, including antioxidant, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, anti-inflammatory benefits, and anti-cancer properties.
- Importantly, people have used plants as a medicinal source since ancient times. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks used radish microgreens medicinally. It’s believed that the ancient Greeks cherished the radish’s health effects so significantly that they cast radishes in gold and displayed them in temples, dedicating them to their god, Apollo.
- Radish microgreens are an excellent source of vitamins, including vitamin A, C, and E and B complex vitamins.
- Radish microgreens’ nutrition also includes a powerful supply of crucial mineral components of a healthy diet.
- These include manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, copper, zinc, potassium, selenium, potassium, and selenium.
- They are ready to harvest in less than two weeks, and are an exceptionally versatile ingredient, useful in everything from salads, sandwiches and wraps to sauces, or as an alternative to basil and parsley in these recipes.
