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Brussels sprout
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Brussels sprout

One of the small edible buds along the stem of a variety of cabbage. (Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera.) They are high in the glucosinolate compound sinigrin. Sinigrin was found to destroy precancerous cells in laboratory rats in 1996.



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