Broccoli Calabrese Organic Microgreens
€3,15
30g
brassica oleracea botrytis cimosa
- Certified organic
- Source of sulforaphane
- Mild and crunchy
Pick-up and delivery on Tuesdays. See options below.
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30g of organic broccoli calabrese microgreens.
pick-up and delivery
Our pick-up and delivery are always on the following Tuesday.
– Delivery is between 13:00 and 15:00 only in Brussels (Etterbeek, Evere, Ixelles, Schaerbeek, and Woluwe-Saint-Lambert). Please make sure you’re home when we deliver.
– Pick-up is between 17:00 and 19:00 at oh nènè at Clos des Briquetiers 3, 1140, Evere.
Are you interested in delivery, but your commune is not listed? Feel free to contact us and we’ll see if it’s feasible for us!
storage
Store in your refrigerator between 1 and 4 °C. Best used within ten days of purchase.
how to eat?
You can eat the microgreens as a garnish on your dishes or as they are.
It is unnecessary to wash them before eating them, but you can do so if you wish.
certified organic
All of our microgreens are verified and certified organic by CERTISYS BE-BIO-01.
packaging
We package the microgreens in a returnable glass jar valued at 0,50 €. If you bring back the glass jar, we will refund you the 0,50 €. Otherwise, feel free to use the glass jars at home at your convenience.
our urban farm
We grow our microgreens on our urban (non-industrial) farm in Evere, Brussels.
nutritional value
We would love to tell you the exact nutritional value of the microgreens we sell, but we would have to do lab tests to do that, and we’re not there yet. In the meantime, we use existing scientific studies to give you an idea of the nutritional value.
sulforaphane
“Similarly, in sprouts of eight broccoli cultivars, grown without exogenous nutrients, the inducer activity (nearly all of which arose from glucosinolates) per unit plant weight declined initially in an exponential manner from a maximum in the seed (Figure 3) and continued to decline thereafter, approaching the values in mature broccoli heads after about 15 days (data not shown), whereas the total inducer activity per plant remained constant. The inducer activity fell from 1.8 million units/g of seeds to 180,000 units/g fr. wt. at 9 days, largely due to an increase in plant weight from seeds (3.3 mg) to 9-day-old sprouts (60 mg).”1
You can read about the many health benefits of sulforaphane in the following studies:
Li, Y., Zhang, T., Korkaya, H., Liu, S., Lee, H. F., Newman, B., Yu, Y., Clouthier, S. G., Schwartz, S. J., Wicha, M. S., & Sun, D. (2010). Sulforaphane, a dietary component of broccoli/broccoli sprouts, inhibits breast cancer stem cells. Clinical cancer research: an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 16(9), 2580–2590. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-2937
1 Fahey, J. W., Zhang, Y., & Talalay, P. (1997). Broccoli sprouts: an exceptionally rich source of inducers of enzymes that protect against chemical carcinogens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 94(19), 10367–10372. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.94.19.10367
vitamins
We currently haven’t found scientific studies yet documenting the vitamin content of broccoli microgreens.
minerals
| Minerals | mg/100g FW HW1, 2, 3, 4 | 15% NRV5 |
| Calcium (Ca) | 32 ± 1 | 120 |
| Copper (Cu) | 0.0379 ± 0.00217 | 1 |
| Iron (Fe) | 0.612 ± 0.00944 | 2.1 |
| Magnesium (Mg) | 36 ± 1 | 56.25 |
| Manganese (Mn) | 0.29 ± 0.00638 | 0.3 |
| Natrium (Na) | 22 ± 0.05 | – |
| Phosphorus (P) | 75 ± 2 | 105 |
| Potassium (K) | 79 ± 1 | 300 |
| Zinc (Zn) | 0.537 ± 0.012 | 1.5 |
1 For minerals, we refer to the study Xiao, Zhenlei & Lester, Gene & Luo, Yaguang & Wang, Qin. (2012). Assessment of Vitamin and Carotenoid Concentrations of Emerging Food Products: Edible Microgreens. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 60. 7644-51. 10.1021/jf300459b.
2 Values are expressed as mean ± standard error (n=3).
3 FW = Fresh Weight (n=3)
4 HW = grown on hydroponic growing pads with water only
5 We compare the values from the study to the nutrient reference values (NRVs) defined in ANNEX XIII of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011. To claim that a food has a significant amount of a vitamin or a mineral, 100 g product must supply at least 15% of the NRV. The same rule applies to the claim that a food is high in or contains a vitamin or mineral.
