Nutritional value
• It has 60-70% protein content. Respectively, the content of other foods is soya 35%, milk powder 35%, meat 15%-25%, eggs 12%, cereals 8%-14%
• Its content in B12 is 2-6 times more than raw beef liver.
• It contains 58 times more iron than raw spinach and 28 times more than raw beef liver.
• It is 3 times richer in vitamin E from raw wheatgerm and has 49% better absorption from synthetic (L) vitamin E.
• A source of beta carotene, certainly 25 times higher than raw carrots contain.
• Its polyunsaturated fatty acids are three times more than the ones of evening primrose oil.
• The concentration of chlorophyll is 5-30 times higher than the seed of alpha-alpha, wheatgrass and barley grass.
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