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Lightly Cook Cruciferous Vegetables
Lightly cook broccoli and cauliflower rather than overboiling them to preserve sulforaphane while improving tolerability; use a light boil, steam, or pan-cook instead of turning them into a mash or leaching nutrients into the water.
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“If you cook broccoli and cauliflower lightly, okay? So you don't just turn into a complete mash. You don't boil it such that a lot of the nutrients are leached out into the water around it. So if you do sort of a light boil or a steam or something like that, or you pan cook it, maybe in some olive oil, you'll still maintain the sulforaphane in those cruciferous vegetables.”
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