TAILIEUCHUNG - Microgreens: The treasure of nutrients

Microgreens are emerging speciality food products which are gaining popularity and increased attention nowadays. Microgreens are tiny and tender counterpart of mature green leafy vegetables, contained higher amounts of minerals and vitamins (Platel and Srinivasan, 2017). Depending upon the variety of seed sown, microgreens are harvested between period of 7 to 21 days after sowing. Microgreens are tiny in size but they have dense source of nutrients. | 2020 9 2 18-23 EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 2 2020 Journal homepage http Review Article https Microgreens The treasure of Nutrients Nidasesi Deepa and Daneshwari Malladadavar Department of Food Technology University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad - 580005 Karnataka India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Green Leafy Vegetables Microgreens Shelf life. Article Info Accepted 05 January 2020 Available Online 10 February 2020 Microgreens are emerging speciality food products which are gaining popularity and increased attention nowadays. Microgreens are tiny and tender counterpart of mature green leafy vegetables contained higher amounts of minerals and vitamins Platel and Srinivasan 2017 . Depending upon the variety of seed sown microgreens are harvested between period of 7 to 21 days after sowing. Microgreens are tiny in size but they have dense source of nutrients. They are considered as functional foods which contain health promoting or disease preventing properties that are additional to their normal nutritional values. These greens can be a good way to fight against food security with their short growing season. Introduction In the world there are currently about 1 billion people chronically malnourished and approximately 2 billion people who suffer from a deficiency of essential micronutrients Godfray et al. 2010 Godfray and Garnett 2014 . To address the need of a diet with fresh nutrient-rich and high content of phytocompounds necessary for healthy development of the body the vegetables industry has introduced a new product microgreens. The microgreens can be considered an innovation of the concept of vegetables and vegetables industry in general having the potential to transform the whole idea of vegetables Di Gioia and Santamaria 2015 . The microgreens are normal plants sown at a medium

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• The treasure of nutrients
• Green leafy vegetables
• Shelf life
• Mature green leafy vegetables
• Contained higher amounts