Microgreens: A Potential Source of Energy

Abstract

Food system must be revised to provide an adequate amount of nutrition to the unprecedented world population. People of every country of all economic status are facing the problem of malnutrition which is considered an important global challenge. Current efforts to mitigate malnourishment are focused on maximal nutrient uptake; however, priority should be given to establishing dietary guidelines that satisfy human nutritional requirements with a diversity of foods, which can be produced with minimized environmental impact. Therefore, simply up-scaling of current agricultural practices to increase crop yields is not a viable solution for feeding the world’s population. A newly emerging crop that may be a dense source of nutrition, gained popularity as a new culinary trend over the past few years, known as microgreens. Microgreens are the emerging alternative to fortified and genetically modified foods, provides a sufficient amount of nutrition.