EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — The Sprout Alliance for Safety and Science announced its formation less than a week after Kroger said it was discontinuing the sale of sprouts due to the food safety risks.

Cooked sprouts pose no health risk. Cooking is the time-honored method of killing food-borne pathogens. However, the rise of the health food movement of the 1960s and ‘70s brought a vogue for raw ...

The sprouts industry has been "on the forefront for testing within the whole food industry," he said. Growers have independent labs test water and water runoff for bacteria like E. coli and salmonella ...

Sprouts have taken one step closer to culinary oblivion, with the big grocery chain Kroger saying that as of this week, it's banishing sprouts from its 2,425 stores because they pose too big a food ...

LITTLE FALLS — Sprout Growers and Makers Marketplace wants to create a legion of locavores. And no, that's not a type of dinosaur. A locavore is a person whose diet primarily consists of locally grown ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking a permanent injunction against a Gretna alfalfa sprout and mung bean grower for repeatedly ignoring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's warnings of ...

Sprouts are one of the very best foods that anyone, anywhere, with any level of gardening experience can grow successfully. They are incredible veggies that are so fast to make, and so richly full of ...

Can you grow vegetables indoors? Sprawling pumpkin vines and trailing cucumber plants may be too large for indoor growing, ...

Bridgeport-based Specialty Farms is voluntarily recalling certain alfalfa sprout products because of a possible contamination with listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause serious and ...