Back in the early 1970s, when supplements were just gaining popularity, my Aunt Bev started taking alfalfa tablets. My Uncle Len just couldn’t understand why she wanted to take tablets she bought at the store instead of just eating alfalfa sprouts. Now remember, I come from a family of itinerant farm workers during the Great Depression. So the whole tablet thing was foreign to my family’s way of thinking. Alfalfa, to them, was a plant they ate straight from the field. Not a tablet.