What has 15x more nutrition than celery?

budding sunflower sprouts

It’s definitely more difficult to stay healthy during the winter. Local farms in cold climates stop delivering fresh produce, and so we have to ship more in from warmer climates.

The longer produce stays on a truck, the more nutrients are lost.

That’s why it’s critical to consume locally grown sprouts in the wintertime.

Consider the following chart, which demonstrates that pea sprouts have up to 15 times the nutrition of celery.

Source: www.nutritiondata.com

Sprouts contain many minerals, which is important because non-organic produce is grown in mineral-deficient soil (Source: United States Department of Agriculture).

Sprouts also contain 10 to 100 times the amount of enzymes than in raw fruits and vegetables.

Enzymes are critical for health because they catalyze chemical reactions. Thousands of reactions take place in your body to keep you alive, healthy, and young.

Without catalysts, reactions take more energy to produce the same result – leaving you feeling drained.

Whenever we use sprouts on our raw or vegetarian retreats, they come from a local grower named Mark Mackenzie. You can contact him to grow you pea, buckwheat, sunflower and wheat sprouts (i.e., wheatgrass).

Mark is also an extremely knowledgeable nutritionist and a 6-year raw vegan, so feel free to pose your advanced nutrition questions to him: +1.519.940.3869.