Hyderabad: Micro greens trending for healthy living

Hyderabad: The 'micro greens' have become the latest trend of healthy living. In this background, FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) and Young FICCI Ladies Organisation (YFLO) jointly organised a workshop on micro greens. Shilpa Datla, Chairperson of YFLO, said the world was changing and was moving fast making the concept of 'green living is healthy living' a reality. "We all know that green vegetables have a very good benefit on health and this has encouraged people to prefer on green diet. Micro greens are the seedlings of vegetables and herbs which have many takers now as they have lot of health benefits."

The workshop was conducted by Savio D'Souza from The Green Education Organisation (GEO) who spoke about the benefits of micro greens and the process of growing them at home. Savio promoted the concept of Micro Greens as the healthy intake in our daily meal to the 200 plus participants. Some micro green varieties have 40 times more nutrition than grown vegetables, he shared. Micro greens are known to contain about 40-50 per cent more nutritional value than the full-grown plants.

We began with Indian Council of Agriculture Research. It was a funded project. After that we ran out with funds and started educating educators in schools. But, there was a lukewarm response. Slowly and steadily we picked up. We have done over 1000 workshops in the last 7 years across the country. Every third customer on our online shop is from Hyderabad. Awareness from Micro Greens in Hyderabad is very good shared the expert and specialist in Micro Greens, Savio. He prides himself in creating a mass movement for Micro Greens in India. The awareness for these is very high across India now, he said.