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- Sproutman - Organic Sprouting Salad Mix - 8 oz. (227g) Sproutman Organic Sprouting Salad Mix is made up of Clover, alfalfa, radish, crimson clover and arugula. Its best sprouter is freshlife automatic sprouter, with the next best sprouter being hemp sprout bag. Sproutman Sprouting Salad Mix are ready in 7 days. Sproutman Organic Sprouting Salad Mix can be stored and are viable up to 2 years when stored in a glass jar in a cool, dark place. Refrigerate or freeze in a sealed freezer bag to extend storage life. ORGANIC SEEDS Being organically grown does not make seeds automatically good for sprouting. While they spend quite a bit of time sourcing organic seeds, they still test every batch to find the varieties that are the best sprouters. Organic certification only indicates the growing methods used by the farmer. It does not indicate a seed's germination, rate of growth, size, taste, color, or sproutability. They test for these attributes which are important to the sprout consumer. BASKETS Baskets are beautiful. They miss sprouting in baskets. They were simple and sublime. They first invented the basket sprouter back in 1977, and they sprouted in them for over 20 years. They used to order 24,000 baskets at a time and they were custom made to their specifications. However, in 1996, they discontinued ordering baskets because their manufacturer in China had become fraught with insurmountable problems. Don't forget, these are hand crafted items. They are made one at a time and as such, there were numerous "quality control" issues. They were forced to examine every shipment, basket by basket…oy! that's 24,000 checks! They discovered (at great expense) that 3-4 out of every 10 baskets had too many large spaces between the weaves and too many sprouting seeds would fall through the cracks. Customers complained and no matter how many times they tried, they could not get the consistency they needed. If that was not bad enough, the quality of manufacturer had also deteriorated and many baskets started to unravel after a few uses. Then there was the issue of fumigants. More and more shipments were gassed and it became too difficult to circumvent this practice. After years of frustration, and losses of thousands of baskets, it became economically unfeasible to continue importing baskets for sprouting. If you still want to use baskets for sprouting, you can. You can find them at most Asian food and Oriental supply stores. Or look in oriental furniture and gift stores. Try to obtain bamboo baskets that are free of shellac. Look for bamboo with a bread basket style weave. SALMONELLA and E-COLI All their seeds have been diligently spot tested for Salmonella and E-coli with special equipment Every sack of seed has a 25 gram sample drawn and tested. While this is not a fool-proof guarantee, it has a 99% potential to catch contaminated seed. Since the salmonella scares of the late 1990's, all the different players in the seed industry have set in place safeguards and sprouts today are arguably the safest fresh food in the marketplace. Keep in mind, there are 8 million cases of food borne poisoning in the USA each year. In the sprout industry, there have been 1639 cases----not in one year, but over the entire 40 year history of the commercial sprout industry. In addition, it may be of some comfort to know that there has never been a case of salmonella from home-grown sprouts. HOME DECONTAMINATION OF SEED Decontamination of seed is an optional procedure, but in the Freshlife Automatic Sprouter, it is too easy to pass up. Just add a few drops of grapefruit seed extract to the reservoir. SPROUTING QUINOA I like Quinoa as a grain. It is a great nutritional seed. But they do not promote it as a sprout for three reasons: 1) It is hard to acquire the right form of the unhulled seed. Health food stores don't sell it. 2) If you are willing to invest the time to track down the right seed, often the germination is too low for successful sprouts. That leads to
- UPC # 792844957793
- Size/Form 8 oz.
Suggested Use: Use to sprout salad mix. INGREDIENTS Sproutman Organic Sprouting Salad Mix (Clover, alfalfa, radish, crimson clover and arugula).
