Where diet and health genuinely intersect, reviewed by our scientists and clear about what is established and what is not.
One batch of radish seed, eight different soils, and a 3.6-fold spread in zinc. Lead and cadmium stayed negligible — but the study explains why a microgreen's mineral content is a property of what you grow it in, not of the crop.
Microgreens are said to boost immunity everywhere you look. We went through the research to find the study behind it. There isn't one — and the way that claim gets built is worth seeing in full.
Broccoli microgreens have been fed to mice on high-fat diets, and the results were real. Here is what those studies measured, at what dose, and why that is not a diet plan.
Microgreens have been recalled for Salmonella — most often broccoli microgreens. Here is the contamination record, why it happens, and what genuinely changes the risk.
Researchers digested Brassica microgreens in a lab and fed them to human gut bacteria. Different crops fed different microbes — and produced different short-chain fatty acids. Here is what that does and does not tell us.
A 2026 study found sunflower microgreen extracts inhibit alpha-amylase — the enzyme that turns starch into sugar. Here is what that result means, and the four steps between it and your dinner.
Broccoli, radish, sunflower or pea — which microgreens actually have evidence behind them for blood sugar? A crop-by-crop look at what has been measured, and what has not.
Pathogens introduced through irrigation water did not just reach the plants — they persisted on them and in the growing medium. Water is not the neutral thing that carries everything else.
Microgreens grow in warmth and humidity — conditions that suit bacteria as much as plants. One study found that how much contamination got in barely mattered. That result is worth understanding before you decide how to grow.
Microgreens inflammation science explained: how cruciferous greens like broccoli make sulforaphane, and what the research really shows.
Microgreens cholesterol research is promising but early. See what the red cabbage mouse study really found and how to use microgreens wisely.
Microgreens and diabetes: what early studies suggest about sulforaphane, blood sugar, and adding nutrient-dense greens to a type 2 diabetes diet.
