The Living Food Lifestyle
By adding living foods to your diet on a consistent basis, you can help to improve your overall health. Living foods contain concentrated antioxidants in the form of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, enzymes, and plant pigments. These are “natures protectors” – our first line of defence against free radical damage and toxic build up. Unfortunately, most of the foods we consume are depleted in these essential nutrients. Eating living foods regularly is the best way to heal your body, reverse the damage that has been done and protect against future damage.
Let me explain what a microgreen is…
A Microgreen is simply the germinated seed shoot that when grown to its maximum potential for nutrition, is harvested by hand, with scissors. Mircogreens can be confused with ‘sprouts’, which include the seed, root, and stem of the germinated plant.
There are many interesting and wild varieties Microherbs and Microgreens that add lots of intense flavours, providing you with an easy way to get an intense amount of health benefitting, nutrients in every meal.
Why eat our microgreens?
Microgreens have many benefits. The main one being a health gut. Remember that old saying “trust your gut feeling”? We live by that saying at Pure Greens. “If it makes your gut feel good, keep on doing it”. That gut feeling might be enough for your but to know that micro greens work hard to keep a healthy immune system and fight off some pretty horrible diseases is another good reason to make sure you’re filling your body with good nutrients and vitamins. Here are some other reasons you might want to be considering including Microgreens into your and your families diet.
High Nutrient Density: Though the nutrients vary from one type of microgreen to another, the plants contain a condensed level of nutrients from iron, zinc, potassium, vitamins A, B, and C and many more.
Cost-effective way to boost nutrient intake, without having to purchase and eat large quantities of vegetables.
Vitamin content starts to drop as soon as a vegetable is harvested. Supermarkets greens can be sitting for weeks before being eaten. Our microgreens are delivered the same day as harvesting and so our customers can be eating their greens at their maximum vitamin content.
Sustainable: By eating microgreens we are allowing seed farmers to maximise their crop, no ugly fruit thrown out. Grown on sustainable organic farms, we select our seeds based on being non GM and not treated with any form of chemicals and tested for bacteria, all seeds come with a track and trace certificate.
Environmentally Friendly: Moving seeds around the planet makes more sense than bringing the whole vegetable, A vegetable that will loose 30% of its nutritional value just 3 days after it’s harvested.
Water Usage: Mircogreens use 200 times LESS water during growing, than if the plant was grown to full size before harvest
Clinically clean: We grow our microgreens in our specially built ‘clean room’. An air tight facility with ‘heat recovery’ ventilation to maintain humidity and fresh air. Ensuring perfect crops every time and minimal waste.
No Single Use Plastics: Microgreens grown in Food grade plastic trays to minimise the plastic degradation experienced using the typical gardening trays and so usable for years. Delivered in decomposable cardboard tray, no single use plastic bags!
Soilless growing Our Microgreens are grown on Hemp and Coconut growing matts to minimise risk of bacteria or bugs. All our matting is then composted and returned to the soil after each harvest.
Chemical Free: No use of chemical ferilizers or pesticides. Just DE chlorinated and aerated tap water.
LED grow lighting designed for purpose and using electricity from green sources with plans to minimise these costs using solar panels once technology becomes affordable.
Cut microgreens: Although we deliver your microgreens on the day of harvesting, your greens will sit in the fridge for upto 5 days and still deliver crunch, flavour and nutrients.
Zero carbon delivery system, in the EH15 area all deliveries will be made by bicycle, no warehousing or delivery chain involved …. well maybe one.
Suitable for all climates: We can grow lots of different variants from all over the world, as we provide a fully controlled environment to grow each type of microgreen.
Grow Quick: You can order your fresh new microgreen variant and have it delivered cut and on your plate within 1-3 weeks.
Re growable: As we can provide our microgreens on the growing matts with the root intact, some varieties can be regrown however all varieties will keep for far longer than super market bought salad if watered and given light.