They brought us the seedless pepper and the red super-sprout - now M&S boffins have come up with white gold broccoli, sweeter, more succulent than the green variety. Sounds ideal for a superfood Sunday lunch and encouraging kids to eat their greens.
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In the last few years people have generally had a healthier diet than past generations, namely through better education of which products should be included in our diets and while products we should cut down on.
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Vegetables such as broccoli have plenty of health benefits - but to get maximum effect, you need wholefoods, not any sort of supplements, steamed gently rather than overcooked. So you need to convince the kids to eat their greens!
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When it comes to getting the maximum health benefit from vegetables, organic, steamed wholefoods are the way to go, particularly broccoli. Many vegetables containing key phytochemicals can boost your immune system, but you need to eat the real thing.
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Broccoli might not be everyone’s favourite vegetable but following new research which has found that teaming it with a spicy food, such as wasabi or horseradish, significantly enhances its cancer fighting power it could pop up on more plates.
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We have long been told about the health benefits of superfoods but now Sulforaphane, one of the primary phytochemicals in broccoli has been proved to selectively target and kill prostate cancer cells, leaving normal prostate cells healthy and unaffected.
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Scientists are reporting the discovery of a potential biochemical basis for the cancer-fighting ability of broccoli and its other vegetable cousins.
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