The shoots of salad vegetables such as arugula, Swiss chard, mustard, beetroot, etc., picked just after the first leaves have developed.
The Journal of American Society for Horticultural Science
reported that young lettuce seedlings, harvested 7 days after germination, had
the highest antioxidant capacity as well as the highest concentrations of
health-promoting compounds, compared with their more mature counterparts.
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