 So how do we apply the science of broccoli and sephora fain to our daily lives? I'm gonna talk to you about how you can grow your own broccoli sprouts at home for you and your family. So growing your broccoli sprouts is actually really easy. You only need a few supplies and a little bit of time. It's really quite satisfying because you go really from these broccoli seeds to five days later, a whole jar full of yummy broccoli sprouts. So I'm gonna go over some of the things that you need and how to do it. So let's get to it. So you don't need a lot. So what you need, we grow our broccoli sprouts in a mason jar. So this is our broccoli sprout growing vessel. We'll need to fashion a way to drain the water from your growing vessel and we'll need some broccoli seeds. So first off, to make the draining piece, I simply get a mesh stainless steel. Simply draw a circle the size of your mason jar and cut this out. And then we're gonna fix that onto our lid. You can also pre-purchase pre-made mesh grids if you want to as well. You also, you don't have to use the stainless steel. You can use plastic ones as well. Or you can even use a cheesecloth. It's just something to be able to drain the water from your seeds. So the broccoli seed, I have pictured here. There's nothing terribly special about the broccoli seeds that you need to get. I do recommend trying to purchase seeds that are meant for sprouting that tends to have slightly better yield than the seeds that are geared for growing broccoli in the soil. But you can get these at any of your local garden store. The first thing that we need to do is clean our broccoli seeds. One of the biggest concerns with consuming broccoli sprouts or any sprouts is potential bacteria or microbial contamination. So even if your seeds are certified, I highly recommend to just as a safe measure, sanitize and clean your seeds so they're free of any bacteria. And the way that we do this is we use very, very diluted bleach. If you're not comfortable with that, you can also use undiluted vinegar, white vinegar, apple cider vinegar. But I'm gonna show you the way that we do it with the bleach. So what we do, I've already added water to our mason jar. I'm gonna add one quarter teaspoon of bleach to here. We'll just give that a bit of a mix. So it's again, very diluted bleach solution. I have one tablespoon of broccoli seed that I'm gonna add. If you have a larger jar, you can also use larger jar, quart, half gallon. Here's an example of a half gallon. Half gallon, I usually add one quarter cup of seed. For the quart, I add two tablespoons. We are going to take this. Let's, let me give it another stir. And now we're gonna let that cleaning solution do its bacteria killing. So I'm gonna go ahead and set a timer for 15 minutes and let that cleaning solution do its job. So after 15 minutes have gone by, I'm gonna take my lid with that screen on top. And I'm gonna rinse this out really, really well. So I have a makeshift sink here. I'm gonna dump out the water. I'm gonna do this at least 10 times. So I recommend about 10 minutes to constantly add more water, dump it out, add more water, swole it around, dump it out and do that for about 10 minutes to ensure you've got all that cleaning solution gone. When we come back, after these things are cleaned, the next step is to soak our seeds. And this will allow for that sprouting. So I'm gonna add water back to our mason jar, about two thirds full. And this time I'm not gonna dump it. I'm just gonna allow the seeds to sit. I'm gonna swirl it around just to get all the seeds in there. And this is gonna sit overnight in a dark place, away from sunlight for 12 hours. So we're gonna take that away. And then for the next few days, morning and night, what we're gonna do is take this jar and rinse it out just a couple of times. So again, don't need to take your lid off, just simply dump out the water, add water back in and then just do that a couple of times. Just to rinse out the seeds. And at this point, we want the seeds to try to remain a little bit dry. So we want to now store the seeds. I like to take the jar, tap it along a little side just to spread out the seeds on the walls a little bit. And then we're gonna place it on an angle in a bowl. You can purchase, you know, sprouting kits that will help hold the night. Hope I find it's putting in a bowl where it's perfectly fine. This allows this to drain over time. And we're gonna do that every day, morning and night for the next few days, rinse and drain. So what we'll see over the next few days. So here are our seeds that we've started. They've been sanitized and rinsed. And again, we're just gonna keep them out of direct sunlight and every day rinse them twice a day. And you'll see in a couple of days, we'll start to see some of our sprouts to emerge by usually around day four. So three days after you'll start to see significant sprouts. And then by day four, you'll see quite a bit of sprouts. You can harvest them at this point. If you wanted to, I tend to let them go until day six. So five full days after we've prepared them and I get a nice big full cup of broccoli sprouts. What I do afterwards is I dump the sprouts out into a bowl with some water, simply mix them around a little bit to help dissociate those seed hulls from the sprouts, throw them in a colander to drain them a little bit and then further dry them onto a towel. These sprouts are ready to consume. You can throw them in your soups or your salads. You can also freeze them away if you don't want to consume them. The sprouts are generally good for about three to five days, store them in the refrigerator. Again, try to keep them dry. If you can't consume them in that time, you can throw them in the freezer. If you are gonna use those frozen sprouts, so that appears to retain that active enzyme at my Ross days that we've been talking about, but you do wanna use those frozen sprouts right away. So throw them into your food processor, your blender for a smoothie, don't allow them to thaw too much. Otherwise you'll lose that sulforaphane. So I hope you can try this at home and you enjoy your broccoli sprouts.