Luya X-1 grows fresh, nutrient-dense greens automatically — right in your kitchen.
Microgreens naturally concentrate selected nutrients. LUYA uses AI to push them further.
Growing conditions dramatically influence what a plant produces. LUYA controls every one of them — then closes the loop.
*Literature-based estimates derived from published studies and reference food-composition data. Comparisons refer only to the specified nutrient by mass, not overall nutritional or health equivalence. Actual LUYA harvest values will be validated through laboratory testing.
Sources: USDA ARS; Xiao et al., Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry; Zhang et al., Food Chemistry; Kyriacou et al., Frontiers in Plant Science; published broccoli glucoraphanin studies.
In a human trial, fresh broccoli sprouts and six supplement pills were matched for glucoraphanin going in — about 220 µmol each. But over 24 hours, the body absorbed far more sulforaphane from the living plant.
A human crossover trial: 12 subjects ate fresh broccoli sprouts, then — after a washout — took six broccoli supplement pills. Sulforaphane metabolites in urine ran about 5× higher on the sprouts, and peak plasma about 7× higher. Most pills lack active myrosinase, the enzyme the living plant brings with it. Clarke et al., Pharmacological Research 2011
Why drink powdered greens when you can eat them alive?
Educational summary of published research, not medical advice. Bioavailability depends on the supplement (some add myrosinase), preparation, and the individual.
Because until now, both ways of getting microgreens failed ordinary households.
Warm, damp, densely sown trays are exactly the conditions mold likes. One stretch of still air and the tray is compost.
Soil, soak water, drip trays, spills — a hobby that lives on your counter and leaves marks on it.
Watering every day, airflow, light timing. Miss one weekend and you start the cycle over.
Gram for gram, among the priciest greens in the store — you pay for the clamshell, the cold chain and the shelf, not just the plant.
Cut days before you ever see them — and key nutrients begin declining from the moment of harvest.
A well-stocked shelf carries two or three varieties on a good day. The interesting crops rarely make it to retail at all.
Both dead ends have the same cause: growing is a skill, and freshness doesn't travel. So we removed the skill — and the distance.
The world’s first AI-powered microgreens system — an intelligent home nutrition device designed to grow fresh microgreens automatically.
Almost any device can produce one good tray. Staying successful a year later takes five things working together.
Eight tray positions across two levels, each with managed light, water, air and climate.
The control surface: pair, scan a tray, watch the live view, get told when to act.
Pre-seeded and scannable. One tray starts one cycle.
Per-crop, per-stage programs — the reason the same hardware suits basil and broccoli.
Published methods, honest limits, and help when a cycle goes wrong.
About five minutes a week.
Everything else, continuously.
No soil preparation. No complicated schedules. No gardening experience required.
Two cameras watch every tray — one in visible light, one in near-infrared. Together they read coverage, height and color, and can flag stress like early leaf-yellowing or nutrient deficiency before it shows to the eye.
Luya learns exactly what each crop needs — at every stage of growth.
Luya continuously adjusts light spectrum, airflow, irrigation, nutrients, humidity and temperature to match the biology of each plant.
The exact set points differ by crop and by stage. They are the growing recipe itself, and we don't publish them.
Luya X-1 uses a multi-spectrum LED system. Different wavelengths can influence how a plant grows, how it looks and how it develops.
Spectral responses summarised from a 2025 review of plant photobiology under artificial light. Scientia Horticulturae 349:114248. Far-red's effect on photosynthesis is still contested in that literature; our own spectrum recipes are not published.
Explore the SciencePlant science, controlled environments, growth data and computer vision feed one closed loop — the LUYA Growing Model.
Every LUYA tray arrives pre-seeded and ready to grow. No measuring seeds. No growing media. No setup.
Open the door, cut what you need, put it straight on the plate. From harvest to table, measured in seconds.
Live view and time-lapse, per-bed temperature and humidity, plant-health scores, harvest-ready alerts and a full auto-watering log — for every bed, from anywhere.
An appliance, not gardening equipment. It belongs beside the coffee machine — not inside a greenhouse. And where you live isn't always a kitchen.
Founder 100 — first cohort: 20 households. $599, with $299 back on completing your missions.
Apply now →Modern agriculture made food abundant. Modern life made nutrition complicated. Today, most of it arrives in bottles, powders and packages.
U.S. adults don't eat enough vegetables. Fed more than ever — nourished less than we think.
CDC · MMWR, 2022Health should never come from a bottle. It comes from fresh food — and fresh nutrition is the problem we set out to solve.
One tray does the work of the bottle. Pick a crop and see what a single weekly LUYA tray delivers — measured against the pills people buy for the same thing.
The same broccoli, raw vs cooked: sulforaphane bioavailability fell ~11-fold with cooking. What form food is eaten in matters as much as what it contains.6
Illustrative figures based on published data; nutrient content varies with crop, cultivar, light and harvest time, and glucoraphanin converts to sulforaphane only when the plant is chewed or cut. Not medical advice.
Luya X-1 sits at the intersection of nutrition, fresh food and the smart appliance.
It is an appliance, and appliances have requirements. We would rather you know them now than discover them later.
A countertop footprint with clearance to open the door, and a standard outlet.
The app is the control surface, not an accessory. Some capability depends on being online.
Refilling water when asked, harvesting, and rinsing parts between cycles.
Growing continues only if new trays do. Tray cost is published before you buy the device.
If you want the process of gardening itself — choosing seeds, tending plants, learning by trial — a LUYA is probably not the right purchase. It is built to make the growing disappear.
See the full requirements→For most of human history, nutrition was alive. It grew. It changed. It was harvested. It was eaten.
Modern life made nutrition convenient — but increasingly distant from its source.
And if people ever live beyond Earth, fresh nutrition will have to come along — food for a species that leaves home.
The hundred-year story →Be among the first 100 households to grow with LUYA. The first cohort is 20 — selected for fit, not order of arrival.