You’d have to have been asleep to miss the recent controversy over bean sprouts and E. Coli infections.
According to prominent scientists, the only ‘safe’ way to eat bean sprouts – or any other form of sprouted seeds – is very well cooked.
But ask any raw food enthusiast worth their weight in miso and they’ll point out that the major benefit of the sprouted beans and seeds is the myriad of health-giving enzymes they contain, which are pretty much destroyed by cooking.
So what’s the truth behind this story and what should you be doing, to keep your family healthy, but safe? [Read more…] about Are Sprouted Seeds Really So Dangerous?