Ongoing Research on Microgreens: Nutritional Properties, Shelf-Life, Sustainable Production, Innovative Growing and Processing Approaches

Renna, Massimiliano; Paradiso, Vito Michele

doi:10.3390/foods9060826

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“…[24] N-containing metabolites Glucosinolates Protect against Helicobacter pylori infections, light-induced damage of retina brain ischemia/reperfusion, traumatic brain injury, intracerebral hemorrhage, and contusion spinal cord injury (sulforaphane); decrease infarct size, brain (or spinal cord) edema, and cortical apoptosis (sulforaphane); restoration of skin integrity; inhibit growth of human tumor cells. [25] In the last decade, the scientific literature on sprouts has dramatically increased and has been widely reviewed [1][2][3][4]23,26]. Nonetheless, there are aspects that have been scarcely or never explored.…”

Section: Phytosterolsmentioning

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Sprouts and Microgreens: Trends, Opportunities, and Horizons for Novel Research

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Sprouts and microgreens have attracted tremendous interest across multiple disciplines in recent years. Here, we critically review the most recent advances to underscore research prospects and niches, and related challenges, not yet addressed or fully pursued. In particular, we report a number of themes that merit special attention as a result of their relevance to plant science, nutrition, health, and zootechnics: (1) species not yet or inadequately investigated, such as wild plants, and fruit tree strains; (2) abiotic and biotic factors, and biostimulants, for elicitation strategies and metabolic engineering; (3) sanitization and processing technologies to obtain high-quality products; (4) digestive fate and impact of bioactive elements, antinutrients, and allergens on human nutrition; (5) experimental challenges to researching health benefits; (6) the opportunity to generate natural product libraries for drug discovery; and (7) sprouts in animal feeding to improve both animal health and the nutritional value of animal products for the human diet. The convergence of different themes involving interdisciplinary competencies advocate fascinating research pursuits, for example, the elicitation of metabolic variants to generate natural product collections for identification and selection of bioactive chemicals with a role as nutraceuticals, key constituents of functional foods, or interactive partners of specific drugs.

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Sprouts and Microgreens: Trends, Opportunities, and Horizons for Novel Research

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“…Microgreens are seen as a major source of various important micro and macronutrients with a significant difference in the overall composition of the nutrient content among various microgreen types. Renna and Paradiso, in 2020, investigated the nutritional content of three different microgreens, namely cauliflower, broccoli, and broccoli rabe, belonging to the Brassica family and cultivated using three different molar ratios of NH 4 :NO 3 nutrient solutions [ 53 ]. It is evident from this study that these three microgreen species are rich in mineral elements, such as Na, Cu, Mn, Ca, Mg, K, Zn, and Fe.…”

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Microgreens—A Comprehensive Review of Bioactive Molecules and Health Benefits

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Microgreens, a hypothesized term used for the emerging food product that is developed from various commercial food crops, such as vegetables, grains, and herbs, consist of developed cotyledons along with partially expanded true leaves. These immature plants are harvested between 7–21 days (depending on variety). They are treasured for their densely packed nutrients, concentrated flavors, immaculate and tender texture as well as for their vibrant colors. In recent years, microgreens are on demand from high-end restaurant chefs and nutritional researchers due to their potent flavors, appealing sensory qualities, functionality, abundance in vitamins, minerals, and other bioactive compounds, such as ascorbic acid, tocopherol, carotenoids, folate, tocotrienols, phylloquinones, anthocyanins, glucosinolates, etc. These qualities attracted research attention for use in the field of human health and nutrition. Increasing public concern regarding health has prompted humans to turn to microgreens which show potential in the prevention of malnutrition, inflammation, and other chronic ailments. This article focuses on the applications of microgreens in the prevention of the non-communicable diseases that prevails in the current generation, which emerged due to sedentary lifestyles, thus laying a theoretical foundation for the people creating awareness to switch to the recently introduced category of vegetable and providing great value for the development of health-promoting diets with microgreens.

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“…Micro greens are gaining increasing interest as potential functional foods, due to their relevant contents of micronutrients and bioactive compounds. At the same time, micro greens can be grown in a very simple way, even in very small spaces, being suitable for urban agriculture, as well as a component of space life support systems (Massimiliano Renna et. al, 2020) Dietary guidelines for 2015-2020 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommend 1-4 cups of vegetables per day for males and 1-3 cups of vegetables per day for females, depending on their age.…”

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Micro Green Farming for Productive Life Management

Dinesh¹,

Balan²,

Sundaravalli³

2021

JSR

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Covid 19 had brought a remarkable makeover to most of the people socially, mentally, economically and emotionally irrespective of age and gender. Therefore it was need of the hour to know the lifestyle of people and their stress level. This study paved way for an opportunity to create awareness and motivate people to take up micro green farming which would eliminate their frustration and stress and also lead a healthy life. Questionnaire survey was carried out which included various sections to understand their lifestyle pattern. The results revealed that life pattern of most of the respondents moved from active phase to a sedentary phase. No significant difference was noted within their lifestyle factors but it was evident that majority of them faced severe stress and frustration. Lack of physical activity, fear, anxiety, relationship and financial problem and over use of gadgets were few causes. With the intervention program particularly micro green farming, the stress level of the selected respondents dropped and were found to be happy and satisfied. Few participants took up micro green farming as a small start-up and micro green kits were distributed to the community to motivate and make them understand the value of the super greens.

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Ongoing Research on Microgreens: Nutritional Properties, Shelf-Life, Sustainable Production, Innovative Growing and Processing Approaches

Cited by 26 publications

References 15 publications

Sprouts and Microgreens: Trends, Opportunities, and Horizons for Novel Research

Sprouts and Microgreens: Trends, Opportunities, and Horizons for Novel Research

Microgreens—A Comprehensive Review of Bioactive Molecules and Health Benefits

Micro Green Farming for Productive Life Management

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