Don’t Miss the Benefits of Broccoli Sprouts!
If you are looking for a super health food, you most certainly want to consider broccoli sprouts. You have probably heard of the wonderful health benefits of mature broccoli heads, but did you know that three-day-old broccoli sprouts contain 20-50 times the concentration of compounds like sulforaphane glucosinolate and glucoraphanin? This particular compound is the subject of a great deal of interest and study into it’s amazing role in preventing/fighting many forms of cancer.
In addition, there are many other chemoprotective compounds in these sprouts which provide a great arsenal of benefits like cardiovascular, blood pressure, anti-inflammatory, free radical protection, and many others. They are also a very rich source or protein for you who are vegetarians! I encourage you to do some additional research on this exciting health product and would recommend this book: The Broccoli Sprouts Breakthrough: The New Miracle Food for Cancer Prevention
While you can buy broccoli sprouts from your health food store, you can also grow your own. There are many resources available on the internet for doing so, but what I do is to let a few of my broccoli go to seed and simply harvest them. A few mature plants will yield an abundance of seed, and so after the seed/flower pods have matured, I cut these stalks off, tie them together and turn them upside down in a paper bag. After sufficient storage in a dry place, the seeds will drop to the bottom and you can simply remove the stalks. With about 4 mature plants I was able to fill an entire envelope with seed and these have so far remained viable 4 years later.
There are also variations of these health compounds from one broccoli variety and plant to another, but late broccoli varieties supposedly contain more anti cancer glucoraphanin. It might actually be a good idea to just order seeds specifically for this purpose such as this product: Organic Sprouting Seeds Broccoli 8 oz
