Crucifers are also cancer-fighting Super Foods. The crucifer family includes broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi and kale. Even the very conservative Committee On Diet, Nutrition and Cancer, of the National Academy of Sciences, agrees that crucifers, along with carrots and spinach, are important cancer fighters.
Eating crucifers encourages the formation of substances, called indoles, in your intestines. Studies have shown that indoles help prevent some kinds of cancer. The beta carotene, vitamin C and fiber in crucifers also work against cancer.
Besides fighting cancer, crucifers are good for your health in general. They are full of CCs but have very little fat and no cholesterol. All in all, they’re just what the doctor—your “doctor within’—ordered. Broccoli is an excellent crucifer that not only supplies you with indoles and other cancer fighters but generous amounts of beta carotene and vitamin C as well.
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