Confetti Mix Microgreens

The Spicy Mix brings together four of the oldest and most widely-traveled plants in the human food story, grown young and cut fresh into a single clamshell. Each one was domesticated in a different corner of the world, by different people, for different reasons — purple radish from ancient Asia, sunflower from the American Great Plains and Mexico, broccoli from Roman Italy, and speckled pea from the Fertile Crescent.

Four plants. Four continents of origin. Eleven thousand years of human selection, collapsed into one clamshell.

Want the full story of each? Visit the individual product pages for Purple Radish, Sunflower, Broccoli, and Speckled Pea microgreens.

The Spicy Mix works because its four varieties don't compete — they layer.

The purple radish leads with heat — a bright, peppery jolt that blooms across the tongue and fades into something almost floral. It's the loudest voice in the mix, and it's meant to be. Without it, the clamshell feels tame.

The sunflower provides body. Thick, juicy stems with substantial crunch and a nutty sweetness that reminds you of sunflower seeds but greener and more alive. If the radish is the spice, the sunflower is the structure — the reason the mix eats like food rather than garnish.

The broccoli sits quietly in the middle. Mild, clean, with just a subtle peppery finish — none of the sulfur bite that pushes people away from mature broccoli. It's the layer that makes the mix feel balanced rather than chaotic.

The speckled pea cools everything down. Sweet, crisp, and tender, with a pure green flavor that reads as nothing but spring. Its feathery tendrils also bring length and movement to the clamshell — softening the radish's edge and rounding off the finish.

Visually, it's striking: deep magenta radish stems, bright emerald broccoli, pale sunflower cotyledons, and pea tendrils winding through it all. It looks the way it tastes — layered, alive, and more than the sum of its parts.

The Spicy Mix is a finishing green — it goes on top, at the end, raw, where its freshness and bite can show. But because it combines four different textures and flavors, it can carry more of the dish than any single variety. Use less, or use a lot.

Pile it onto avocado toast with flaky salt and lemon. Scatter it across scrambled eggs just before serving. Layer it onto a sandwich in place of lettuce or alfalfa. It shines on tacos — street-style carnitas, fish, or breakfast tacos — where the radish heat echoes the traditional Mexican use of radish as a taco garnish and the sunflower adds body cilantro can't. Fold it into a grain bowl, crown a bowl of ramen or tomato soup right before serving, or top a pizza as it comes out of the oven.

On rich proteins — a cheeseburger, grilled fish, smoked salmon on cream cheese, a seared steak — the mix adds the clean bite most plates are missing. A little goes a long way because the radish carries.

Heat wilts microgreens quickly and dulls their benefits, so always add them last — after the cooking is done. Store the clamshell in the fridge and cut only what you need. Rinse, shake dry, use immediately. The plants are still alive when you take them home. The whole point is keeping them that way until the moment they hit the plate.

Whether from our garden, towers, shroom room, or craft kitchen, everything is finished with the same standard: science and craft in service of flavor.