| Radish Sprouts are from the brassica family which means that their flavor will be similar to the plant that they produce. If you like radishes, you love these sprouts! If you don't like radishes, you'll probably like them more as sprouts then as veggies, as they are so jam-packed with antioxidants and a great number of vitamins and minerals. These sprouts will have a slightly spicy flavor.
Need a good multi-vitamin? Eat Radish sprouts. Radish sprouts have 29 times more vitamin C than milk (29mg vs 1mg) and 4 times the vitamin A (391 IU vs 126). These spicy sprouts have 10 times more calcium than a potato (51mg vs. 5mg) and contain more vitamin C than pineapple. While mature radishes contain 10 IU/100g of provitamin A, the radish sprout contains 391 IU which is 39 times more vitamin A! This is the miracle of germination. Sprouts are a veritable vitamin factory!
Yields: 5:1, which means one cup of seeds will yield 5 cups of sprouts.
Seed shelf life at 70 degrees: 4-5 years
Sprout shelf life: 2-6 weeks.
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