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Friday, 28 October 2011
Up on the shelf, it's a fruit, it's a vegetable, No!, it's Super Broccoli!
Really, Super Broccoli. Because you know you've been waiting for it.
British scientists unveiled a new breed of the vegetable that experts say packs a big nutritional punch.
The new broccoli was specially grown to contain two to three times the normal amount of glucoraphanin, a nutrient believed to help ward off heart disease.
And here I always it was beans that were good for your heart.
To create the vegetable, sold as "super broccoli," Mithen and colleagues cross-bred a traditional British broccoli with a wild, bitter Sicilian variety that has no flowery head, and a big dose of glucoraphanin. After 14 years, the enhanced hybrid was produced, which has been granted a patent by European authorities. No genetic modification was used.
It's been on sale as Beneforte in select stores in California and Texas for the last year, and hit British shelves this month. Later this fall, the broccoli will be rolled out across the U.S.
Cue the Michelle Obama school lunch mandate in 3…, 2…, 1…
Posted at 09:19 by Chris Wysocki
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