Word: broccolis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FOOD NETWORK Of the two greatest pleasures in life, food has translated far more poorly into television. Julia Child and that frugal guy were interesting, but in a raw-broccoli kind of way. This nearly five-year-old network makes food more approachable, appealing and sexy than it has been since Jack and Chrissy got into that pie fight on Three's Company. The channel's biggest star is New Orleans chef Emeril Lagasse, who drives his studio audience to squeals by overloading dishes with garlic, Tabasco and wine and simultaneously yelling "Bam!" The network's newest show lands Bobby...
...riot of trees where cast members will point you toward the greenery so you can see a snoozing two-toed sloth in one tree, a couple of military macaws skirmishing in another. Then you reach the park's central icon, the Tree of Life, a 145-ft.-high broccoli stalk--actually an oil rig festooned with fake bark and 103,000 artificial leaves, each attached by hand--into which 325 creatures have been artfully carved. When the family breaks up to go exploring, you'll be tempted to say, "Meet you at the Tree of Life," but the thing...
George Bush may have been right about broccoli after all. According to a team of scientists from Johns Hopkins University, you don't have to eat a full helping of the hated vegetable to get the health benefits; a spoonful of crunchy broccoli sprouts will do the trick. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the researchers report that three-day-old broccoli sprouts (which look something like alfalfa sprouts) contain the same cancer-fighting chemical, called sulforaphane, as full-grown spears--but at concentrations 20 to 50 times as high...
This is not the first time that scientists have lauded broccoli's anticancer benefits. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Paul Talalay and his colleagues first isolated sulforaphane from broccoli in 1992. Tests showed that the compound reduced the incidence of breast tumors in rats by 60%. While vitamin E and other antioxidants attack rogue cancer-causing molecules directly, sulforaphane works indirectly by boosting the body's cancer-fighting defenses. Not all broccoli plants are created equal, however. The amount of sulforaphane found in fresh broccoli varies wildly, making the vegetable an unreliable anticancer agent...
That's where the sprouts come in. After analyzing 50 different varieties of broccoli, the Hopkins researchers discovered that 15 of those strains produced seedlings with extraordinarily high concentrations of sulforaphane. The sprouts have a mildly spicy taste, which should make them more palatable than full-grown broccoli, especially when sprinkled on sandwiches and salads. But you probably won't find them at your local health-food store--not yet, anyway. And Talalay cautions do-it-yourselfers against trying to grow their own sprouts. Most broccoli seeds, he notes, are soaked in fungicides and pesticides...