Showing posts with label broccoli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broccoli. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Indole-3-carbinol and Sulforaphane: Food Chemicals in Anti-Cancer Diets that make Broccoli a Healthy Thing to Eat




The cruciferous vegetables are a group of vegetables that are known to be one of the healthy things to eat because they have been known, amongst many things, to have anti-cancer properties. The members of this very important class of vegetables include:
1.       Broccoli
2.       Cabbage
3.       Kale
4.       Cauliflower etc.

As vegetables that can be added to our daily anti-cancer diet, these cancer-fighting, cruciferous vegetables contain important food chemicals which research has shown to have anti-cancer activities in both preventing and fighting cancer. For this article, we shall be focusing on broccoli as a representative of the cruciferous vegetables.

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