I have removed the hulls and eaten some of my sprouting mung beans before their time. Now here are the remaining sprouts after four days of growing.
They look more like what you are used to seeing if you have only seen mung beans when fully sprouted. My spouts need a bit more attention from now on to make sure they do not dry out. These babies suck up the water now! They are also a bit delicate; and can break if I am too rough in mixing them when I add water to the bowl.
At this point, the mung bean sprouts are most definitely food, and its a lucky batch that makes it to the end of growing from here. If I am making soup or salad – a handful of mung beans are coming in.
Sprouts are almost overflowing the bowl now and seem to be a lot. But they are deceptive with their twists and turns and are less food that they appear to be. They shrink down in soup and I don’t add a huge amount to salad at this point. They still have a somewhat strong taste until tomorrow.
Notice the hulls remaining. These are what stuck around after I did the rinsing step and picked through them. I feel pretty certain I will stop doing this step for future. I talked about the debate about removing hulls on an earlier post for this series [which WON for the food category in the @photocontests by @juliank!!!! Only my second win in many tries!!!!]
Let’s do the happy dance for that achievement! Come on people! You too, @juliank :) Get up with me and these awesome girls from Revelation Wellness Anderson and we will have 2 minutes and 56 seconds of energetic excitement!
WooHoo! Be sure to fitinfun no matter what :)
My post is for @photocontests #macrophotography contest by @juliank
More in this series
Mung Beans to Sprout
Sprouting Mung Beans First Soak
Sprouting Mung Beans After 24 Hours
Sprouting Mung Beans After 48 Hours
Removing the Hulls from Sprouting Mung Beans
Too Soon to Eat Mung Bean Sprouts
Sprouting and dancing around like a fool are both things I do as part of my new healthy lifestyle after many years of miserable obesity. Anyone can do this is I can. Even you.