Broccoli Sprouting Seeds
Broccoli has become a popular sprout because of its delicious flavor. In 1997 Johns Hopkins University researchers reported broccoli sprouts and other crucifer sprouts to be particularly high in sulforaphane, a glucosinolate shown to have a variety of health benefits.
Growing broccoli sprouts? We can provide you with broccoli sprout seeds that have gone through our rigorous ISS food safety screening. If you grow sprouts commercially, ISS is your source for all your sprouting seed needs. Call today to get current broccoli sprouting seeds pricing. We can be reached at (800) 277-7688.
Broccoli Sprouting Seeds for Commercial Growers
Broccoli is the sprout that customers come looking for by name. That is unusual in this business, and it is worth understanding why, because it tells you how to sell it.
In September 1997, researchers at Johns Hopkins published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reporting that three-day-old broccoli sprouts carry 10 to 100 times more glucoraphanin, the compound the body converts to sulforaphane, than mature broccoli does. Their measurements put total glucosinolates at 22.7 micromoles per gram in the sprouts against 3.37 in mature heads. That single finding created a retail category, and nearly thirty years later it is still driving demand at the grocery counter.
What that means for a grower
It means broccoli is a short-cycle, high-value crop with a customer who already knows what they want. Three days is a fast turn. The tradeoff is that brassica seed is small and unforgiving; it does not tolerate sloppy soaking or a room that drifts warm, and a weak lot will tell on you in four days rather than ten.
- Uniform, small-seeded stock. Broccoli seed sizing has to be tight, because small seed in a big vessel is where channeling and dead spots start.
- Germination on paper, vigor in the tray. We give you the lot number and the germination figure, and we screen for the evenness that a germination percentage alone will not tell you.
- Untreated and intended for sprouting. This is seed grown and handled to be eaten, not field seed diverted into food use.
- It also runs as a microgreen. If you are growing broccoli in trays rather than vessels, Utah State University Extension puts broccoli at roughly 28 grams per 1020 tray with no presoak, two to four days covered and eight to twelve days to harvest. Same seed, different crop, second market.
Food safety screening on every lot
Broccoli sprouts are a ready-to-eat food, which means the seed is the control point that matters most. FDA’s sprout-specific requirements sit in 21 CFR part 112, Subpart M, covering seed treatment, agricultural water, environmental monitoring and the sampling of spent sprout irrigation water. Our broccoli seed goes through ISS food safety screening before we offer it, and lot documentation is available when your buyer or your inspector asks for it. If you are building or rewriting a food safety plan, call us; we have watched a lot of growers go through it.
Flavor and blending
Broccoli has a clean, mildly peppery brassica flavor that most people like on its own, and it blends well where you want that bite without going as hot as radish. It is the anchor of our Broccoli and Clover Blend, where clover softens it for customers who want the broccoli story with a milder taste.
Get pricing and current lots
We supply commercial sprout growers in dozens of countries, and we can talk quantity, lot continuity and shipping in one call. Reach us at (800) 277-7688 for current broccoli sprouting seed pricing, or send a note through our contact form.
