Claim · model-written summary
Light-grown broccoli sprouts had 33% more glucosinolates than dark-grown sprouts.
- Taxon
- Broccoli
Brassica oleracea var. italicae0 - Treatment
- lighte0
- Outcome
- glucosinolatese0
- Direction
- much highere0
- Value
- 33%e0
- Comparator
- darke0
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Verbatim
e0“Broccoli sprouts grown in the light were found to have much higher concentrations of vitamin C (by 83%), glucosinolates (by 33%) and phenolic compounds (by 61%) than those grown in the dark”
Title
Influence of light on health‐promoting phytochemicals of broccoli sprouts
Santiago Pérez‐Balibrea; Diego A Moreno; Cristina García‐Viguera Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2008. doi:10.1002/jsfa.3169
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Light-grown broccoli sprouts had 83% more vitamin C than dark-grown sprouts.
- Intervention effect Light-grown broccoli sprouts had 61% more phenolic compounds than dark-grown sprouts.
- Observation Phytochemical concentrations generally declined over seven days in both conditions.
- Observation Cotyledons had the highest and roots the lowest levels of bioactive compounds.
- Observation Roots had the lowest levels of bioactive compounds.
- Intervention effect Light increased phytochemical concentrations mainly in the first three to five days.
- Recommendation The authors judge younger sprouts a better bioactive-compound source than inflorescences.