The bean sprouts available at the grocery store are white or colorless, not green. Why? Chlorophyll is not synthesized in bean s
prouts. Pigments produced in bean sprouts quench the absorption of light by chlorophyll. The sprouts are grown in the dark. Grocery wholesalers bleach the sprouts to clarify them.
white or colorless but not green. This is because the cell wall sends signals to the photoreceptors inside plant cells to prevent it from turning green and forming leaves so as to aid growth and survival in the dark
