Moong Beans Sprouts & Carrot Salad

Posted On August 30, 2010

There were a lot of questions in me about the freshness of the vegetable being consumed. Usually, we buy vegetables and fruits once a week and consume them slowly throughout the week.  I always like to pick up fresh vegetables and they look damm good in german shops and I occasionally pick up the frozen easy to cook veggies, fruits, and other food items.

As we all know consuming fresh vegetables is healthy. Now there is a question of freshness in fresh vegetables or packed vegetables? The answer is tricky.

I see a lot of imported fresh vegetables and fruits in the shop looking  good and fresh.. Oranges from Spain, Kiwi from Chile, Grapes from Greece, Tomatoes from Italy and so on..These vegetables have to travel thousands of kilometers to reach their destination. Imagine that these vegetables have to cross the change in weather and the germs and bacteria in the atmosphere that will affect the nutrients and degrade the quality. But if the vegetables are processed immediately from the farm and packed, it may not lose its nutrients.

The Ideal freshness of vegetables is consuming it immediately after harvesting(after cleaning with mild warm water). While this is not possible for everyone one of us, but there is an option at least to make your legumes sprouts harvesting in your home…Ready to cook and eat with all nutrients packed in it.

This Sprouts Nutrition chart shows the for information about Vitamins, Minerals, and other nutrients present in them.

Here is the recipe for this simple Moon beans salad. Moong beans is also called as green gram.

Ingredients:

1. Moong beans sprouts – 1 cup
2. Carrot – 1 cup, chopped into small pieces
3. Lemon – Juice of half lemon
4. Pepper – 1/4 tsp
5. Salt for taste.

Method:

1. Just add all the ingredients together and enjoy it. 

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