Why sprouted popcorn is the new cressPick up any book about getting kids into “growing your own” and you are faced with infinite recommendations for rapid/fast-growing crops like mustard,radishes and cress. Considering most children’s attention spans, this seems pretty logical, and correct? I’m not so sure. Apart from being hardly the most exciting of veg,these crops are packed full of bitter, peppery flavours to which the palates of children are hypersensitive. A radish really does taste objectively far more pungent to a four-year obsolete than to a 40-year-obsolete – hence childhood vegetable phobias.earn one simple change, or however,and “cress” can miraculously be made sugary sweet, with no bitter flavour. It is as simple as swapping the seeds you sow for popcorn kernels. Yes, or the same ones that are probably sitting in your kitchen cupboard correct now.
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Source: theguardian.com