UK scientists grow super broccoli

[xchrom]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MED_FOOD_AND_FARM_SUPER_BROCCOLI?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-26-08-51-55

LONDON (AP) -- Popeye might want to consider switching to broccoli. British scientists recently unveiled a new breed of the vegetable that experts say packs a big nutritional punch.

The new broccoli was specially grown to contain two to three times the normal amount of glucoraphanin, a nutrient believed to help ward off heart disease.

"Vegetables are a medicine cabinet already," said Richard Mithen, who led the team of scientists at the Institute for Food Research in Norwich, England, that developed the new broccoli. "When you eat this broccoli ... you get a reduction in cholesterol in your blood stream," he told Associated Press Television.

Glucoraphanin works by breaking fat down in the body, preventing it from clogging the arteries. It is only found in broccoli in significant amounts.

[FSogol]

1. I loved that movie where Super Broccoli fought Mega-Snap Peas.

Total Classic!

[xchrom]

3. ...

:spray:

[BlueJazz]

4. LOL!..Good One!

[HopeHoops]

2. Watch out for killer tomatoes!

[d_r]

5. now if they could just make it taste like a steak

[xchrom]

7. ok. now i want a steak.

w/ sauteed broccoli.

& a baked potato -- w/ sour cream & chives.

look what you've done.

[trotsky]

8. Wrong tactic.

Making steak have the nutritional value of broccoli would probably be the better approach.:9

[valerief]

6. Wait until Monsanto depletes all the nutritional value in their GMO version. Only a matter of time.

The supernutritional one will, of course, be available to the .1%.