The broccoli is one of the vegetables that displays the most elevated profile. Yet, the broccoli is miserly: in the best of the cases, one can only pull from 10% to 20% of his/her/its substances capable to eliminate the cancerous cells. the sulphur. If he/it is cooked too much, the broccoli frees unfortunately nearly more of them…
” To pull the maximum of sulforaphanes of the broccoli, it is necessary to eat it raw or not to cook it steam more than two minutes”, affirm Elizabeth Jeffrey, professor of nutrition and pharmacology to the university of Illinois, to the United States.
According to the analyses that she/it led, only the steam cooking permits to preserve a good quantity of sulforaphanes. The ideal cooking time would be of 90 seconds.
To make boil the broccoli decreases the quantity of sulforaphanes that results from the activation, by chewing, of the glucose of which overflows the broccoli. However, the hot or boiling water prevents the transformation of many glucose in sulforaphanes. Cooking to the microwave oven is also advised against: the temperature becomes too hot and too quickly, provoking the same effect that the boiling water.
” The problem, it is that most people make cook too their broccoli and that he/it thinks to pull a protection” of it, underline the searcher. According to her, it is necessary to eat three to five portions of broccoli per week to get a protection against the cancer. To condition, of course, to prepare it appropriately.
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