Dale,
If I had a laboratory I would have done this reseacrh myself long ago. However,
I do not and I do not have the resources to ask other reserachers to do it for
me. (the tests may be cheap, their fees are not). I already agreed with Douglas
remark that more research is needed.
Nevertheless, the data I give, even though coming from different sources are not
so inconsistent. The German data also include vitamins and amino-acids which I
did not put in the message but which compare very well with the figures I have
from US researches.
All the data are the averages of a good amount of samples.
The only real inconsistency I see is in the amount of magnesium in dehydrated
wheat grass which decreased where the other minerals strongly increased, but
there may be a explanation for this that I am unaware of. Why would different
production systems not produce differences in seedcomposition/seedhealth? As we
all know, seeds are living organisms which are influenced by their environment
just like human beings.
wytze
"Wilson, Dale" wrote:
> wytze,
>
> > I made a mistake to use the word alchemy. What exactly causes
> > the increase of minerals is not clear to me either.
> > Unfortunately I do not have any further details on the tests...
>
> Alchemy may be the proper term! Posting this stuff without checking the
> details misleads people.
>
> > I have an analysis of a German laboratory of sprouted wheat
> > (I think 3-4 days). I also looked up the figures from the USDA
> > FNIC on wheatgrains, which give the data of 6 different wheats...
>
> This mineral increase claim is probably spurious information generated by
> cobbling together data from diverse sources, just like the supposed changes
> in mineral content of produce across years and production systems.
>
> Research to study mineral content of sprouted vs unsprouted seeds would be
> easy and cheap, but it has to be done with local controls to avoid all kinds
> of confounding.
>
> Dale
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