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Seed - Broccoli - Organic - 100g
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Organic broccoli sprouting seeds are easy to grow and a delicious sprout to add to your salads.
Organic (not certified)
Package Size: 100g
- Broccoli sprouts are jam packed with the amazing cancer-fighting phytochemical, sulforaphane.
- Research studies have shown that Broccoli sprouts contain 50 times more sulforpohane than fully grown Broccoli.
- However fully grown broccoli plants still contain abundant vitamins, minerals and fiber that are not found in sprouts. The bottom line - eat both broccoli sprouts!
- Broccoli sprouts also contain glucosinolates and isothiocyanates, substances that protect cells from becoming malignant, at 10-100 times greater levels than in fresh broccoli.
- Broccoli sprouts are sources of plant estrogens, similar to human estrogen, and so are helpful in cases of PMS, menopause, hot flashes and fibrocystic disease.
- Nutrient dense, Broccoli sprouts are rich sources of vitamins A, B, C, E and K, anti-oxidants, the minerals calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and zinc. Also carotene, chlorophyll, amino acids, trace elements and antioxidants. Broccoli sprouts contain as much as 35% protein.
All of the crucifers (or brassicas, or cole crops) are high in antioxidant and anticancer compounds. The anti-cancer properties of these vegetables are so well established that the American Cancer Society recommends that Americans increase their intake of cruciferous vegetables. Other research has suggested that the compounds in brassicas can protect the eyes against macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older people.
Broccoli and cauliflower sprouts contain 10 to 100 times more of a potent anti-cancer agent than mature plants, say researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Both broccoli and cauliflower belong to the Cruciferae family of the genus Brassica and, along with cabbage and kale, contain substantial amounts of isothiocyanates--powerful inducers of an enzyme system that protects against gene mutation and cancer formation.
This mechanism may explain why people who eat lots of cruciferous vegetables have a reduced cancer risk.
Lead researcher Jed Fahey and colleagues found that three-day-old broccoli and cauliflower sprouts contained high levels of an isothiocyanate called glucoraphanin and negligible amounts of harmful indole glucosinolates. Even better, extracts from broccoli sprouts proved highly effective in reducing mammary tumor development in rats treated with the carcinogen dimethylbenz(a)anthracene.
Did you know:
In 1998 Johns Hopkins University declared broccoli sprouts and other crucifer sprouts to be particularly high in sulforaphane. Despite the fact that without seed or sprouts there could never be full grown plants, Hopkins was able to convince the patent office that broccoli sprouts had never been grown before and were granted a patent on all such sprouts.
The patent was struck down by the courts when Hopkins sued ISS and four other commercial sprout growers for growing broccoli sprouts. Hopkins is appealing the case.
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A choice for GREEN living, these seeds are naturally healthy & delicious!
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