#186 Why you should start sprouting with Doug Evans
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Shoots, sprouts, microgreens, saladgreens, grasses, activated nuts it’s a confusing business! But I have Doug Evans on the podcast today, the sprout man himself, to talk us through how powerful and easy sprouting your own can be!
Doug Evans is an early pioneer in the natural food industry. In 2002 he co-founded Organic Avenue, one of the first exclusively plant-based retail chains in the country. Doug has quite the idyllic lifestyle in the Mojave Desert on a permaculture hot springs oasis. Revolutionising gardening and growing your own food right in your kitchen in an affordable and accessible way is going to be a gamechanger for a lot of you and if you haven’t sprouted, and you have my first cookbook, I actually talk about sprouting and how to sprout broccoli and mung beans! But for the definitive guide, do check out Doug’s “The Sprout Book” to learn how to grow and eat the most nutritious food on the planet.
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| 0:00.0 | Dukes Kitchen. |
| 0:02.8 | Recipes, health, lifestyle. |
| 0:06.0 | What most people don't know is that when you go into the supermarket, even to buy fresh produce |
| 0:12.7 | that head of lettuce or that bag of salad could be a week or two or three weeks old. |
| 0:18.9 | But when you're growing your own sprouts, you are getting a fresh harvest every single day. |
| 0:26.2 | I mean, it's not just less expensive. It's not just less more nutritious. |
| 0:32.2 | It's actually fresher. |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:41.1 | To show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor. I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer |
| 0:54.0 | in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:59.6 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to |
| 1:05.6 | lead your best life. |
| 1:13.0 | Shoots, sprouts, microgreens, salad greens, grasses, activated nuts. |
| 1:18.1 | It can be a confusing business, but I have Doug Evans on the podcast today, the Sprout Man himself. |
| 1:24.0 | To talk us through how powerful and easy Sprouting Your Own can be. |
| 1:28.4 | If you don't know Doug Evans, he is an early pioneer in the natural food industry. |
| 1:33.0 | He now has quite the idyllic lifestyle in the majority of the desert on a permaculture hot |
| 1:37.2 | springs oasis. He actually co-founded organic avenue, one of the first exclusively plant-based |
| 1:42.2 | retail chains in the US. And let me just say this, revolutionizing gardening and growing your |
| 1:49.0 | own food right in your kitchen. No need for soil, sometimes no need for light. |
| 1:54.6 | In an affordable and accessible way, it's going to be an absolute game changer for a lot of |
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