Adding myrosinase enzymes in the form of even a pinch of mustard powder to cooked cruciferous (cabbage-family) vegetables like kale, collards or Brussels sprouts can offer anti-cancer sulforaphane levels comparable to raw, removing the necessity to pre-chop for maximum health benefits. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Is that cool or what?! I love kitchen chemistry. Totally revolutionized my daily greens prep. For those new to the whole enzyme concept I’m sure this is a bit confusing. Make sure to watch the original “chemical flare” video The Best Detox (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-detox/) and then the hack and hold strategy in Sometimes the Enzyme Myth Is the Truth (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/sometimes-the-enzyme-myth-is-true/). This helps explain the results I presented in Raw Broccoli and Bladder Cancer Survival (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/raw-broccoli-and-bladder-cancer-survival/). OK, but what’s so great about this sulforaphane stuff? For a taste, see: • Broccoli Versus Breast Cancer Stem Cells (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/broccoli-versus-breast-cancer-stem-cells/) • Sulforaphane: From Broccoli to Breast (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/sulforaphane-from-broccoli-to-breast/) • Broccoli: Sprouts vs. Supplements (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/broccoli-sprouts-vs-supplements/) • Breast Cancer Survival Vegetable (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-survival-vegetable/) In 2017 I did a whole series on autism (https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/autism). One of the videos focuses on a mechanism of sulforaphane to mimic the benefits of a fever in autistic children. Check it out: Fever Benefits for Autism in a Food (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Fever-Benefits-for-Autism-in-a-Food). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-second-strategy-to-cooking-broccoli and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-second-strategy-to-cooking-broccoli. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgments for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. Image Credit: congerdesign via Pixabay, Tony “Drunken F00l” Paloma, Rainer Zenz, Jfoldmei, and Fir0002 via Wikimedia Commons, Lebensmittelfotos via Pixabay, and Muffet and Genesis seeds – production via Flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: If the nitrates in vegetables such as greens are health-promoting because they can be turned into nitrites and then nitric oxide inside our bodies, what about the nitrites added to cured meats such as bacon, ham, and hot dogs? Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/is-bacon-good-or-is-spinach-bad/ and I'll try to answer it! In response to a CDC study (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22277554) linking Spam consumption with diabetes, the president of the American Meat Institute recently defended processed meat (http://www.themeatsite.com/meatnews/16686/processed-meats-a-healthy-part-of-balanced-diet), stating that "93 percent of human nitrite intake comes from vegetables and human saliva -- not from cured meats. If nitrite were the issue, then one would think the vegetables would be the cause of the diabetes, yet no one is suggesting that association." This is the first of the 8 videos on figuring out this apparent conundrum that will close out my 3-week series on the cardioprotective (see Hearts Shouldn't Skip A Beat - http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hearts-shouldnt-skip-a-beet/) and athletic performance-enhancing benefits (see Doping With Beet Juice - http://nutritionfacts.org/video/doping-with-beet-juice/) of nitrate-rich vegetables. For a review of the relationship between nitrates and nitrites, see Priming the Proton Pump (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/priming-the-proton-pump/). So far there have only been a few precautionary notes (see Asparagus Pee - http://nutritionfacts.org/video/asparagus-pee/). What about this nitrite issue? As I say at the end of the video, stay tuned! In the meantime, I have a few videos on processed meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/processed-meat/) and hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects that you can check out (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/). Please also check out my associated blog post http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2012/03/22/using-greens-to-improve-athletic-performance/! Image Credit: Glane23 and Renee Comet for the National Cancer Institute via Wikimedia Commons. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org