## 2 Results and Discussions
### Elemental Profile Composition
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c} \hline \(\mu\)g/g DW & **ACF Seeds** & **ALF Day 1** & **ALF Day 2** & **ALF Day 3** & **ALF Day 4** & **ALF Day 5** \\ \hline Ca & 200.74 \({}^{\rm h}\) \(\pm\) 7.4 & 407.02 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 2.9 & 1269.57 \({}^{\rm d}\) \(\pm\) 2.5 & 1380.49 \({}^{\rm c}\) \(\pm\) 3.1 & 2018.75 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 3.8 & 2765.31 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 1.4 \\ Mg & 2117.59 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 5.6 & 2299.04 \({}^{\rm d}\) \(\pm\) 5.4 & 2564.13 \({}^{\rm c}\) \(\pm\) 7.7 & 2270.73 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 5.3 & 2925 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 8.1 & 2933.72 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 9.7 \\ Na & 818.15 \({}^{\rm d}\) \(\pm\) 3.9 & 2936.96 \({}^{\rm e}\) \(\pm\) 7.8 & 2979.59 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 5.5 & 3231.73 \({}^{\rm c}\) \(\pm\) 9.5 & 3424.39 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 8.5 & 4080 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 10.6 \\ K & 7304.81 \({}^{\rm d}\) \(\pm\) 9.4 & 9428.26 \({}^{\rm e}\) \(\pm\) 4.1 & 9611.11 \({}^{\rm d}\) \(\pm\) 9.6 & 14510.2\({}^{\rm c}\) \(\pm\) 6.2 & 15780.49 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 8.0 & 16,475 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 8.9 \\ Fe & 131.11 \({}^{\rm c}\) \(\pm\) 1.5 & 322.79 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 4.6 & 365 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 4.9 & 2367.14 \({}^{\rm d}\) \(\pm\) 3.7 & 257.25 \({}^{\rm c}\) \(\pm\) 4.4 & 86.21 \({}^{\rm d}\) \(\pm\) 4.6 \\ Zn & 570.65 \({}^{\rm d}\) \(\pm\) 2.1 & 60.37 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 2.3 & 66.76 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 3.4 & 64.35 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 2.6 & 682.2 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 0.5 & 68.24 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 1.5 \\ Cu & 16.41 \({}^{\rm d}\) \(\pm\) 0.6 & 170.6 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 0.7 & 18.12 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 2.6 & 190.97 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 0.5 & 18.86 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 2.3 & 201.2 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 2.3 \\ Se & 6.99 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 1.3 & 7.59 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 0.8 & 7.12 \({}^{\rm b}\) \(\pm\) 0.4 & 11.42 \({}^{\rm a}\) \(\pm\) 1  
Figure 3: Relative change per day in Ca, Na, Fe, and Se content in sprouts of ALF and RCV during germination, compared to row seeds. Figure 2: Relative change per day in Zn, Cu, Mg, and K content in sprouts of ALF and RCV during germination, compared to row seeds. While in RCV sprouts there is a slight increase in the calcium concentration during the 5-day germination, in ALF, a significant increase after the first day of germination can be observed compared with raw seeds. This difference is maintained trend-wise up to a value of 13.7 folds compared to the ALF seeds. In a similar manner, Mn exhibits a constant slightly increase in RCV, although in ALF an important increase was noted from the third germination day up to a value 1.5-fold higher than in seeds. RCV sprouts exhibited a moderate but constant increase in Fe amounts compared with raw seeds starting from the third day of germination, while for ALF sprouts, a significant increase (\(p<0.05\)) was observed coming out of the first day of germination and reaching a maximum in the second day (2.8-fold compared to seeds), followed by a decrease in this amounts below the value measured in the seeds, in the fifth day of germination. A significant decrease in Fe content was mentioned in black and white beans (_Phaseolus vulgaris_ L.) and in pigeon beans (_Cajanus cajan_ L. [PERSON]) sprouts after 5 days of germination compared to seeds [25]. Zn, Ni, and Cu followed the same pattern of slow increase, reaching the maximum in the fouth day of germination, noting that, while for Cu approximately identical concentrations were measured for both plant species, for ALF higher concentration values of Zn and Ni were recorded. Regarding Se, although the values of the concentrations in the seeds of both plants are approximately equal, the dynamic during the germination was different, with an increase until the third day followed by a decrease during the last two days in ALF sprouts, compared to a decrease in the first two days in RCV. A higher value was reached in ALF (11.42 \(\upmu\)g/g DW) compared to RCV (7.38 \(\upmu\)g DW) in the third day of germination.