Sprouting?

[Koalamom]

I don't have much access to good quality food this winter so I am wondering about sprouting. I thought this was healthy but now am not sure after reading this:

" Have you watched the sprouts in the garden? Try it this year. Watch carefully to see what comes to eat the tender seed leaves as they first emerge, heralding the coming true leaves. Are you surprised that nothing eats the sprouts? Even the insects wait until the true leaves begin to grow before settling in for a feast. The plant is at its most vulnerable when it sprouts, so it protects itself with phytochemicals that are carcinogenic and sometimes outright poisonous. Take a cue from Nature: Avoid sprouts (unless they're cooked, which neutralizes the phytochemicals).:

http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezin...2.htm#surprise

Dr Weil also advises against some sprouts, he qualifies which ones in this excerpt

"Tip: The Not So Good News About Sprouts Sprouts became
popular in the 1970s as a New Age staple, often replacing
lettuce in sandwiches, filling salad bowls, and forming huge
mounds of garnish on platters. Sadly, the idea that sprouts
are good for health has little science behind it. As the
youngest forms of green plants, they are probably full of
enzymes associated with new growth, but those compounds are
destroyed in our stomachs. In fact, some sprouts might not be
good for us at all. Raw legume sprouts contain natural
toxins, so I remove raw alfalfa sprouts from any foods that I
am being served. I also avoid raw clover, mung bean, lentil,
chickpea, and other bean sprouts (which don't taste very good
anyway). I have no issue with cooked bean spouts and no
objection to raw sprouts of nonleguminous seeds. If you like
radish, sunflower, and buckwheat sprouts, go ahead and enjoy
eating them."

My cousin eats sprouted quinoa raw and legumes too. Is this healthy?

I am trying to eat more raw foods but am confused as to what is right

[BedHead]

Originally Posted by bluebirdmama1

If you like
radish, sunflower, and buckwheat sprouts, go ahead and enjoy
eating them."

And yet Wikipedia says that buckwheat is toxic: Buckwheat greens contain fagopyrin, a substance naturally occurring in the buckwheat plant. Fagopyrin is phototoxic and can cause hypersensitivity to sunlight in the skins of animals and people, particularly if the greens are juiced or are eaten in large quantities. As sprouts in general are becoming more popular, and because the risks of phototoxicity posed by buckwheat greens are not widely known, increasing numbers of people are suffering unnecessarily.[7][8]

I sprout and eat sprouts, raw and cooked, but not very often. Mostly mung beans and chickpeas. I don't know what research to believe about it either.

[IsaFrench]

I love sprouted lentils, not so much the green ones, rather the brownish-beige ones and the pink ones ....

not sure I should keep on eating sprouts after reading something similar in a previous post last month ....

in search of more information on that topic !

[FairyRae]

Sounds like they are ok COOKED, which is what I've done w/ most grain and lentil sprouts I've made...

Check sproutpeople.com--they have great sprouting info, maybe there will be more on this there????