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February 29, 2004

apricot85 <apricot85@a...>

Date: Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:47 pm

Subject: Re: Spam Alert: [ ] Favorite Sprouts -- From

Warren and Bob (Was: Five Sprouts)

I've been putting various sprout types in my soups. Does anyone think

that there is a disadvantage to eating them this way? Thanks.

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from rjb112@...:

Apricot, your title " Spam Alert " is highly inappropriate.

And, Francesca, your comment of " ADVERTISEMENT, " which no doubt

fueled apricot's clever title, was also highly inappropriate.

I'm not in the sprouting business and have no advertisements nor spam.

I have studied nutrition for 26 years. I do not appreciate comments

such as " ADVERTISEMENT " nor " Spam Alert " . I have nothing to sell and

nothing to gain by posting. If you feel that too much has been posted

about sprouts, just come out and say that you will have a moratorium

on sprouting posts for a certain period of time, and everyone will

respect that and refrain.

Apricot, to answer your question, there's really nothing

fundamentally wrong with putting various sprouts in your soups. As a

matter of fact, Warren routinely puts lots of sprouts into his soups,

and he consumes a lot of soups.

Legume sprouts, such as lentil sprouts, mung bean sprouts, chickpea

sprouts and any other bean sprouts, as well as whole grain sprouts

such as whole wheat sprouts, whole rye/whole brown rice sprouts,

actually need to be cooked. Eating raw legume and raw whole grain

sprouts is not healthy, as their are many types of nutritional

inhibitors found in raw legume and whole grain sprouts, which are

inactivated by cooking. (Lentil and mung bean sprouts take only about

two minutes to cook; of course sprouted chickpeas, sprouted soybeans

and many other sprouted beans take considerably longer to cook).

rjb112@...

Bob Bessen

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