What are sprouted seeds? Can you make sprouts from boiled seed?
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Alfalfa sprouts are ubiquitous, but they are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to sprouting. Other commonly sprouted seeds include broccoli, celery, chia, clover, fenugreek, radish, kale, onion, pumpkin, sesame, and sunflower.
The boiled seeds failed to sprout because boiling denatures or damages certain enzymes or proteins that are required for germination. Thus, boiling kills the seeds. Seeds need moisture (water) and air for sprouting. When the seeds are boiled moisture content will lost and enzymes or proteins are killed.
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Boiling kills the seed, which makes it unable to sprout. It is dead after boiling, and needs to be alive in order to sprout.
You can sprout the seeds, and then boil the resultant sprouts, if you are concerned about killing off any microbes. But the sprouts will likely be more nutritious if you merely clean them with several washes of clear water, and do not boil them.
You may soak the sprouts very briefly in a very mild chlorine solution (one tablespoon of household bleach to a half gallon of water), and then rinse them with 3 changes of clear water to rinse away the bleach, if you are extremely concerned with microbes.