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In recent years, broccoli has gained a reputation as an excellent vegetable due to its high levels of a particularly beneficial compound calledthat eating the whole vegetable gets you more sulforaphane than taking a supplement – so a team of Chinese researchers decided to try and find the best way to cook broccoli.There's a method behind the madness, though. Sulforaphane doesn't just sit there in the broccoli florets, ready to be consumed.
This got the team of researchers thinking about the results of stir-frying – the single most popular method for preparing vegetables in China. First, they basically pulverized the broccoli, chopping it into 2-millimeter pieces to get as much myrosinase activity going as possible .
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