Attention broccoli haters: try sprouts

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Researchers at john Hopkins University discovered some years ago that an ingredient of broccoli, a compound called “sulforaphane”, is a potent anticancer agent. Sulforaphane prompts the body to make an enzyme “a type of protein” that prevents tumors from forming. Cancer development was reduced by 60 to 80 percent in laboratory animals that were fed. Sulforaphane extracted from broccoli.