National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Microgreens are emerging speciality food products which are gaining popularity and increased attention nowadays. Microgreens are tiny and tender counterpart of mature green leafy vegetables, contained higher amounts of minerals and vitamins (Platel and Srinivasan, 2017). Depending upon the variety of seed sown, microgreens are harvested between period of 7 to 21 days after sowing. Microgreens are tiny in size but they have dense source of nutrients. They are considered as functional foods which contain health promoting or disease preventing properties that are additional to their normal nutritional values. These greens can be a good way to fight against food security with their short growing season.
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