This is a very easy dish to make but you will need to start your broccoli sprouts about four days before you plan to make it. You will have to soak the broccoli seeds overnight and allow them to sprout for three days. After three days the sprouts will have the highest concentration of glucoraphanin - a natural precursor to sulforaphane. In fact, three-days old broccoli sprouts contain up to 100 times more glucoraphanin than mature broccoli thus making this compound more available to the body. When the sprouts are chopped or chewed on, the enzyme myrosinase combines with glucoraphanin and converts it to sulforaphane. Sulforaphane is an antioxidant compound found in all cruciferous vegetables. This sulfur-rich compound is believed to have anti-cancer properties and be especially effective against breast, prostate, and urinary cancer cells. In the body, sulforaphane acts at a cellular level where it activates the Nrf2 pathway - a body's own antioxidant and de...
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