Sprout is the best food

Sprout is the best food offered to a man by the nature with its most nutritious value. It has all types of vitamins and minerals. In short you can call this food a ‘mine of nutrients’ required by the body. It is a natural food full of life energy that enables you to lead a natural life. It has natural enzymes hidden inside. It is very difficult for a man to survive exclusively on fruits and vegetables but if he can eat sprouts plentifully, he doesn’t have to eat anything else, but lead a life without any ailment.

Eating sprouts is a tricky and patient work. Some people complain that they feel hungry early after eating sprouts and as a result of which they eat other foods along with sprouts then on. The reason is very simple. Because of the time and effort it takes to chew they eat fewer sprouts which make them hungry and they start eating some other food along with sprouts. This is not a healthy practice. Then the question arises how much of sprouts one has to eat? There is no prescribed quantity as such. You can eat as much as you can. It is better to eat a larger quantity. As a beginner, one can increase the quantity gradually day by day. Initially you may experience gas trouble in your abdomen. Don’t you worry, it subsides in no time.

You can eat 2-3 varieties of sprouts per day. You should eat each variety separately. Should not mix everything together for the simple reason that some sprouts are big in size where some are small. For example, if you eat groundnuts and malt together, the groundnuts are big in size get grounded first in your mouth. The tongue tries to drive inside its paste. Along with the churned groundnut, the thin malt that gets stuck between the teeth while eating is driven in without proper chewing.

All the seeds have an outer skin. It prevents the entry of digestive juices into the seeds as a result they are not digested. Our body does not have the capacity to break the unbroken seeds and pulses. It can’t even break a tiny sesame seed if unbroken. If you don’t chew your seed food properly, they can’t be digested and comes out of the body along with stool. Body tries to digest it by releasing more gastric juices but can’t break it. Due to the release of gastric juices your abdomen gets irritated and you feel lot of trouble inside your stomach causing gases and burning sensation. For example, you might have noticed many people complaining stomach ache on eating guava. It happens because of the unbroken seeds of guava swallowed inside. Therefore, there is no point in eating sprouts or any other food that is not properly chewed. It is better to eat each variety separately and eat them taking ample time.

Health benefits of Sprouts:

1. If you compare the nutritious value of the sprouts with that of dry seeds, the value of the former is surprisingly more.

2.  At the time of sprouting, the percentage of vitamins, minerals and proteins in the seeds increase enormously. At the same time the carbohydrates reduce to a lower percentage.

3. There will be very little water content dry seeds. The water increases by 10% once they are soaked for sprouting. It results in the multiplication of nutrition in the seeds on sprouting.

4. Sprouts are considered as a mine for nutrients because they have more proteins that protect the body. During the process of sprouting, the carbohydrates are separately very minutely and these seeds absorb the nitrogen prevalent in the atmosphere around. Carbohydrates are now changed into amino acids that can be digested very easily. This is why the content of carbohydrate is reduced more in the sprouts than in dry seeds. So the proteins thus in the sprouts are more easily digested than the proteins we eat through other food items. The table given below shows you the difference in percentage of nutrition in sprouts against dry seeds.

Nutrients	Percentage Increased	Percentage Decreased
Water	8.3%	-
Energy ( Calories)	-	15%
Carbohydrate	-	9%
Proteins	30%	-
Calcium	34%	-
Potassium	80%	-
Sodium	690%	-
Iron	40%	-
Phosphor	56%	-
Vitamin	285%	-
Thiamin or B1 Vitamin	208%	-
Riboflavin or B2 Vitamin	515%	-
Niacin or B3 Vitamin	256%	-
Vitamin C	great extent	-

5. The sodium helps in quick digestion in stomach and small intestines. It also helps in driving out carbon dioxide in the body. Since the sodium content enormously increases in the sprouts, food can easily be digested.

6. Vitamin C content is very less in dry seeds and dry food. But when soaked in water for sprouting the same seeds absorb the atmospheric values increasing the percentage of Vitamin C. Vitamin C helps in defusing proteins quickly and hasten the movement of iron into blood from intestines.

7. Sprouts contain more fiber that enables free bowel movement.

8. You don’t feel thirsty while or after eating sprouts as they naturally contain more water in them.

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