Load up on vitamins, minerals & other nutrients with alfalfa

Alfalfa's roots go very deep into the ground, about 20 feet and sometimes more! The roots pull the nutrients still available deep within the earth and transfer them to the plant. Because our farmlands have lost much of their rich topsoil, plants with shallower roots don't have a very high nutrient value.

Animals LOVE alfalfa & so should you!
Animals instinctively know what they need. When dogs and cats eat grass, it's because their bodies need it, and they naturally gravitate toward the right choices. Humans seem to have lost their good instincts about the right food choices.

Farmlands across America grow alfalfa for animal feed, because farmers know that alfalfa helps create healthy animals. Maybe we should take a page from their book.

Like a vitamin-mineral pill in a plant
Many of the vitamins and minerals you take in supplement form are readily available in alfalfa. Here's what you'll get if you eat alfalfa sprouts or take an alfalfa pill:

Vitamins A, B1, B6, B12, C, D, E, K, pantothenic acid, biotin & folic acid.

Trace elements, including calcium phosphorous, potassium, magnesium iron, zinc & copper.

Saponins, amino acids & up to 35% protein.

While you may be taking some really potent dosages of vitamins and minerals, they may not be reaching your body. Some supplements don't dissolve completely and exit the body without dispersing their contents. And, if your digestive system isn't functioning properly, you may not be able to extract everything available in a supplement. By eating healthful food, such as alfalfa, you'll be saturating your stomach, blood, muscles and tissues with the nutrients they crave.

Pills or sprouts
You can take alfalfa pills, which are readily available and very inexpensive, or you can take the tasty route and eat alfalfa sprouts. Put sprouts on sandwiches in salads or even put them through the juicer. Don't buy bottled alfalfa juice. The bottling process requires heat (pasteurization), and that diminishes the vitamin and mineral content.

Alfalfa sprouts are found in virtually every supermarket's produce section, but you can easily grow them in your own kitchen. Sprouters are easy to use and supply fresh greens when you need them. Seeds germinate and sprout in 24 hours, and in 3-4 days you'll have nutritious, edible sprouts!

Amazon sells a variety of sprouters. Here are some in different price ranges along with a sprouting book:



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"Let food be thy medicine and
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