Claim · model-written summary
The authors judge younger sprouts a better bioactive-compound source than inflorescences.
- Taxon
- broccoli
Brassica oleracea var. italicae0 - Outcome
- better source of bioactive compoundse0
- Comparator
- inflorescencese0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the younger broccoli sprouts are a better source of bioactive compounds for the consumer than the inflorescences”
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 33% more glucosinolates 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.