Microgreens … ?
Microgreens are the young seedlings of the same vegetables you find at the grocery store. Not to be confused with sprouts, microgreens take between one and four weeks to grow. Plants progress from a seed to a microgreen, then 'baby' greens, and, eventually, a mature vegetable.
Why Microgreens?
Microgreens are beautiful, tasty, and packed with those beneficial nutrients that we often look for in ‘dark leafy greens.’ Actually, many varieties contain a greater density of healthy compounds than their adult versions. “In general, microgreens contain considerably higher concentrations of vitamins and carotenoids than their mature plant counterparts.” [1]
[1] Manjula D. Ghoora, Dandamudi Rajesh Babu, & N. Srividya. (2020). Nutrient Composition, Oxalate Content & Nutritional Ranking of Ten Culinary Microgreens. Journal of Food Composition & Analysis. 91: 103495.