Oops, the figures did not come across as planned. Here again:
Phosphorus:
whole grain: 423mg%
sprouted: 1050mg%
Calcium
whole grain: 45mg%
sprouted: 71mg%
Magnesium
whole grain: 133mg%
sprouted: 342mg%
wytze
wytze wrote:
> Hi,
> Douglas, I fully share your remarks on gmo's, patents and cerfain
> developments in agriculture and society.
> As promised, some data on mineralchange in sprouting seeds. Source is a
> French book: "Decouvrez les graines germees" (discover sprouted grains)
> from 1983 by M. Cayla.
> He gives for wheat the following figures:
> Phosphorus:
> Magnesium Calcium
> whole grain 423mg%
> 133mg% 45mg%
> sprouted grain 1050mg% 342mg%
> 71mg%
>
> In oats he found an augmentation of Calcium of 300-350%
>
> Unfortunately, most of the sprout-research has focused on vitamins and
> amino acids.
> One interesting figure concerns provit A in rice Carotene in rice
> increases from 0,3mg in unsprouted rice to 4mg/100g in seedlings of seven
> days. (I do not know how riceseedlings taste and whether they are used as
> food anywhere.)
> I will dive further into the mineral issue and see what has happened since
> the eighties in research. Anyway I agree that more research is needed.
> wytze
>
> Douglas Hinds wrote:
>
> > Hi wytze,
> >
> > Monday, April 10, 2000, 12:47:56 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > w> Hi John, Douglas,
> >
> > w> ... Douglas' remark on the richer soils and healthier soils makes
> > w> sense to me but is the increase in minerals than caused by the
> > w> combination of compost and soil micro organisms?
> >
> > Well, you need the compost / humus to help breed the micro-organisms
> > which help make minerals accessible, but above all I would stress the
> > need for further research regarding these natural, symbiotic
> > processes. This of course requires funding. Speaking of funding:
> >
> > In terms of my social conscience, I am offended the vast, wasteful,
> > expensive and totally needless campaign to cash in on (develop, market
> > and thus exploit) unique, patentable recombinant organisms designed
> > first and foremost to benefit their developers and pushers, who are
> > little better than criminals in my book.
> >
> > Evidently we find ourselves in the midst of a struggle where the
> > natural world is being trashed (both psychologically and physically)
> > as unfit, just so others can substitute processes that took millions
> > of years to develop with others (*"theirs"*) that have more potential
> > to lower the quality of life as we (and all those that preceded us)
> > know it than to fulfill the greenback backed hype that's being spewed
> > out in the media.
> >
> > And this is happening even before the natural process that gave rise
> > to life itself are fully understood.
> >
> > Maybe I should go back to the states and run for president.
> >
> > Or just urge that more research be done on biological systems, while a
> > moratorium is implemented on the further release of GMOs in
> > agriculture.
> >
> > Douglas
>
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