Since growing my own sprouts, I haven’t looked for them in the grocery stores but didn’t remember seeing them so I looked it up online. Wal-Mart quit selling sprouts in 2010 and Kroger quit selling them in 2012, due to health concerns.
Another reason to grow your own but there are some precautions to be taken even when growing your own. This site lists some care that should be taken. Honestly, I take the same precautions I do when cooking any food or dealing with any raw food and so far . . we’re still alive!
Stephanie says
Interesting. But most of that article seemed to be a common sense sort of thing. I guess there isn’t much of that left these days, sadly… Do you remember the good old days when we almost never heard of food-borne illnesses? And on rare occasions they did occur, it was ALWAYS meat? Now it happens with EVERYTHING! I swear, I think it’s the biggest and most obvious sign that people no longer have a clue what to do with food. And that way too much processing is being done on it… One of the reasons I’m trying to make big changes in our eating habits, in fact… (Also, LOVE your blog!! Always very interesting!)
patti says
i don’t know what i’m doing wrong, but my homegrown mung beans never get to the size of the ones in the grocery store. if i try to let them grow, they begin to get bitter and slimy. i use a mason jar with the screen like lids. the salad sprouts turn out perfect, but i’ve tried two suppliers of mung beans with no luck. any advice?
Linda says
I remember there being a lot of illness linked to sprouts in the grocery store. The only ones I ever used to buy already sprouted at the store were a mixture of lentils and peas. They were in sealed packages, so I don’t think they were much of a problem, but the loose alfalfa sprouts that folks would take by the handful (bulk) instead of using the tongs were not good.