Fresh vegetables not only contain many vitamins and minerals, but also valuable health-promoting secondary plant substances such as sulforaphane. You can find sulforaphane mainly in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, cress, radishes and rocket. Sulforaphane is not only anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and a powerful antioxidant, but is also successfully used in fighting obesity, osteoarthritis, autism, asthma and hay fever, diabetes type 2, aging processes and (proven by recent studies) in cancer therapy and against neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Sulforaphane, however, is not directly contained in its active form in broccoli & Co., but must first be activated by the enzyme myrosinase from the inactive form glucoraphanin. This…