alfalfa sprout

Flavorful new varieties, such as radish and onion sprouts, are now available (fresh or in seed form) at your local grocery or health-food store, causing the old alfalfa sprout to take a backseat.

To reach the conclusion, the research team worked with 65 volunteers who were given varying oral doses of either broccoli or alfalfa sprout preparations for three days.

After all, six ounces of corned beef or pastrami and a couple of ounces of cheese and salty sauerkraut, all topped with Russian or Thousand Island dressing, doesn't sound like alfalfa sprout on whole wheat.

A SMALL WHITE TAG ON the side of alfalfa sprout containers sold at Trader Joe's is enough to give pause to any health-minded shopper:

The researchers worked with volunteers who were given varying oral doses of either broccoli or alfalfa sprout preparations for three days.

Of the 156 patients with completed interviews, 114 (73%) reported alfalfa sprout consumption.

Scientists don't yet fully understand how the malevolent microbes form colonies that cling stubbornly to and spread across plant surfaces, such as the bumpy leaves of a cabbage or the ultra-fine root hairs of a tender alfalfa sprout.

Mbandaka was isolated from 11 of 12 alfalfa sprout samples, and one of two lot L seed samples obtained from the sprouter X facility.

They wanted to simulate the RF heating performance of radish and alfalfa sprout seeds packed inside rectangular boxes of seed.

of Matched OR (a) % Cases Food item pairs pairs (CI) (b) exposed Chicken 8 2 3.0 (0.8-38.7) 71 Beef 2 5 0.4 (0.04-2.4) 71 Fish 6 3 2.0 (0.4-12.4) 54 Eggs 4 2 2.0 (0.3-22.1) 79 Tomato 9 3 3.0 (0.8-17.2) 71 Lettuce 5 8 0.6 (0.2-2.2) 50 Alfalfa sprouts 1 0 Undefined 4 Cabbage 5 5 1.0 (0.2-4.4) 38 Bean sprouts 13 1 13.0 (2.0-552.5) 58 Cucumber 6 4 1.5 (0.4-7.2) 63 Paprika 6 4 1.5 (0.4-7.2) 54 Peppers 4 0 Undefined 17 Onion 9 3 3.0 (0.8-17.2) 67 Carrots 6 8 0.8 (0.2-2.5) 46 Parsley 6 2 3.0 (0.5-30.4) 38 Celery 7 2 3.5 (0.7-34.5) 29 (a) Maximum Likelihood Estimate of odds ratio (OR).

Fifteen (63%) of 23 patients ate alfalfa sprouts during the week before becoming ill.