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Boost broccoli's cancer fighting power with broccoli sprouts
By overcooking their broccoli, many people destroy myrosinase – a beneficial enzyme in broccoli. Broccoli sprouts contain myrosinase in abundance. To increase the vegetable's benefits, you must sprinkle broccoli sprouts on your broccoli or make a mustard sauce to serve with broccoli.

Tiny Greens Brand Alfalfa Sprouts or Spicy Sprouts may contain Salmonella
US FDA is advising consumers not to eat Alfalfa Sprouts and Spicy Sprouts (which contain alfalfa sprouts mixed with radish and clover sprouts) from Tiny Greens Organic Farm of Urbana, Ill.

Sulforaphane in broccoli may limit breast cancer cells
A compound derived from broccoli could help prevent or treat breast cancer by targeting cancer stem cells -- the small number of cells that fuel a tumor's growth -- according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Soy, tofu, sprouts can improve COPD symptoms
Using soy products, like tofu, natto, bean sprouts and soy milk, can reduce the risk and symptoms of lung disease i.e. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Taking 75g of soy products daily is having the most health benefits and improving the lung fuction in human beings.

Amalgamated sprouts contaminated with Listeria
Amalgamated Produce, Inc. (API), Bridgeport, CT, announced a voluntary recall of its Specialty Farms, Vermont Sprout House, Nature's Promise and BroccoSprouts (noted as distributed by API, Bridgeport, CT) sprout items with sell by date codes of March_31 through April_27, 2009.

Broccoli sprouts prevent stomach cancer
Three-day-old broccoli sprouts, a widely available human food, suppressed Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections, according to a report in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Broccoli may ward off bladder cancer
An international team of researchers led by AgResearch senior scientist Dr Rex Munday has discovered that an extract of broccoli sprouts can decrease the incidence of bladder cancer in an animal model by more than 50 per cent.

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