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- A: Looking for someone with plant expertise, Dr. Talalay hired me in 1993, and I began to search for a "better broccoli." I soon discovered that the smaller the plant, the more potent in terms of its chemoprotective, or cancer-fighting, activity. The seed is the most concentrated source of sulforaphane's precursor molecule (sulforaphane glucosinolate or SGS), which becomes diluted as the plant matures. Genetics also plays a role, so we grew varieties with very high levels of sulforaphane glucosinolate. Over time, we found that this key protective compound in broccoli is 20 times more concentrated in young three-day-old broccoli sprouts than it is in more mature broccoli plants -- and that we could extract it from the seed. To bring this discovery to consumers, we formed Brassica Protection Products in cooperation with Johns Hopkins University. The company distributes the patented product called BroccoSprouts® to grocery stores, and it also extracts the SGS from the seeds and adds it to quality tea leaves in the 8 varieties of Brassica® Tea with SGS™. Proceeds from the products help support the Brassica Chemoprotection Foundation, designed exclusively to support further such studies of the cancer-fighting properties of plants.
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