Mr Fothergills Mustard & Cress Seed (1)

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Fresh and peppery, mustard cress is ideal in sandwiches and salads for added kick or also great as a garnish. If you want to grow mustard and cress to harvest them at the same time, then you need to sow the mustard 3-4 days ahead, because mustard seedlings grow faster.

If you want something a bit milder, look for oilseed rape (canola) seeds – they can be grown the same way. A delicious salad and sandwich ingredient, Mustard Cress takes up little space and a very small amount of your time.Raw cress is 89% water, 6% carbohydrates (including 1% dietary fiber), 3% protein and less than 1% fat (table). To boost the nutritional value of microgreens include extra-virgin olive oil with your meal as the presence of oil helps improve the bioavailability of the fat-soluble nutrients in microgreens (carotenoids, vitamin E, and vitamin K).

In a 100-gram ( 3 + 1⁄ 2-ounce) reference quantity, raw cress supplies 134 kilojoules (32 kilocalories) of food energy and numerous nutrients in significant content, including vitamin K (516% of the Daily Value, DV), vitamin C (83% DV) and vitamin A (43% DV). L. sativum is often used in experiments to teach biology to students in schools; the plant grows readily on damp paper or cotton, and its fast germination and development time makes it useful in demonstrating plant growth. Public Notice: We have become aware that some SEO companies are redirecting domains not owned by us to this site. In some regions, garden cress is known as mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepperwort, pepper grass, or poor man's pepper.

If you sow your seeds in the morning then they may have started to germinate by bedtime – small white roots will be visible. If it’s the middle of winter and there’s nothing much going on in the vegetable garden, or you want some easy and ultra-fresh salad greens, or a rainy day project to help keep the kids occupied, then try growing mustard and cress!

When consumed raw, cress is a high- nutrient food containing substantial content of vitamins A, C and K and several dietary minerals. Mustard Cress is a wonderful ingredient in salads and works well in combination with carpaccio or raw fish.Consumers commonly acquire cress as seeds or (in Europe) from markets as boxes of young live shoots.