I came across this post in The Deliberate Agrarian Blog concerning a dehydrated salad greens product called Garden Salad Flakes. It is available commercially from Machado Farms. Be sure to read Rick Machado’s comment to the blog post.
Garden Salad Flakes have an amazing score of 2450 ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) units per five gram serving. That’s right, two thousand four hundred and fifty. You can read about what ORAC is here.
I have not delved deeply into it yet but it sounds like something that a lot of can be good for you. Now I don’t grow the same garden greens in the same way that Rick does, nor am I really concerned about obtaining the optimum balance of specific nutrients in exact proportions. I just want to get some of the same sun shinny goodness in the winter that I get in the summer from garden greens. So taking a slipshod shotgun approach that can be taken to some things I just dehydrated a bunch of mixed greens. Maybe I’ll only get 1225 ORAC from my blend but then for what it is costing me I can either use twice as much or just limp along on half a dose. Half a dose being better than none.
Don’t get me wrong I think it’s a great idea. I dehydrate lots of other things, so why not greens.
Why not make some yourself. If your dehydrator is just sitting there idol early in the season crank out some winter time green flakes.
Originally posted: June 30th, 2008