Documentation

Here is my documentation for everything that goes into selling sprouts at our local farmer's market (called Gardener's Market). Click here to see the documentation for the broccoli seed inspection. Here is my permit from the department of agriculture.

and my current food handler's permit.

I package the sprouts in a commercial kitchen located in the Bridgerland Applied Technology Center West Campus on Friday evenings so the sprouts are fresh for the Gardener's Market on Saturday morning. For additional questions, you can email me at DeAnn.Jones@usu.edu

Benefits of Broccoli Sprouts

You can either eat 20 ounces of broccoli

or just one ounce of broccoli sprouts

to enjoy the same amount of cancer fighting biochemicals. Researchers at John Hopkins University discovered that broccoli sprouts have 20-50 times more of the biochemicals that prevent cancer than mature broccoli.

The Harvard scientists even patented broccoli sprouts and formed a company, BroccoSprouts, and sued companies that were growing broccoli sprouts for infringing on their patents. However, the small broccoli sprout growers finally won the lawsuit and now anyone can grow broccoli sprouts. (The judge ruled you can't patent something already occurring in nature.) Broccoli sprouts help prevent ulcers and stomach cancer

and protect against heart disease

Broccoli sprouts even help lower the bad LDL cholesterol and increase the good HDL cholesterol.

Broccoli sprouts help reduce breast cancer riskand even destroy breast cancer cells.

They also protect against skin cancer. If a mother eats broccoli sprouts during pregnancy, her children may have life-long protection against cardiovascular disease. Using pregnant rats, researchers found that not only did the broccoli sprouts improve the mothers' health, they also improved the health of their offspring into adulthood - even if the babies never tasted a sprout. The study recommended pregnant women eat 7 oz of broccoli sprouts every other day (or 3.5 oz per day). In the research study on cholesterol, study participants ate 3.5 ounces of broccoli sprouts a day, which is about a sandwich size zip-lock bag full.

That means that a week's supply would be 24.5 ounces, or a gallon sized zip-lock bag full a week. This amount is achievable. Here are some great ways to eat broccoli sprouts: Tunafish sandwich on Crumb Bro. 5 Decker Seed bread with Albacore tuna and sprouts.

My favorite breakfast is a slice of Crumb Bro. bread with sliced avocado and sprouts.

Sprouts taste great on Salmon with a squeeze of lemon juice!

Try scrambled eggs with salsa and sprouts!

Wraps taste great with sprouts too! This is an Asian Salmon Wrap with sprouts (You can substitute chicken for the salmon if you prefer).