Preserving Anticancer Nutrients in Food

Don’t miss out on vital anticancer food benefits. Here’s how you can preserve the anticancer nutrients in your food! 
 
Timestamps:
0:00 Preserve the anticancer nutrients in your veggies
0:10 Vegetables and anticancer phytonutrients 
2:14 How to preserve anticancer nutrients
3:10 Benefits of isothiocyanate

In this video, we’re going to talk about how to preserve the anticancer nutrients in your food. 

Cruciferous vegetables have a lot of anticancer phytochemicals. You can find these nutrients in virtually all cruciferous vegetables, including bok choy, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, radish, and watercress. 

One of the most researched phytonutrients is called glucosinolate. For glucosinolate to become bioactive, it has to first convert into another phytonutrient called isothiocyanate—the active version. This conversion process requires an enzyme called myrosinase. 
 
Isothiocyanate has the ability to:
• Neutralize cancer
• Induce apoptosis
• Inhibit tumor growth
• Reduce inflammation
 
The problem is, if you cook any of these vegetables for ten minutes or more, you destroy myrosinase, the enzyme that turns the phytonutrient into the bioactive version. 

To ensure your vegetables maintain this enzyme, you have two options:
1. Eat the vegetables raw so that the enzyme cannot become damaged. 
2. Chop, cut, crush, or mash the vegetables, wait about 7 minutes, and then heat—this allows the enzyme to work before cooking. It’s still best not to overcook the vegetables. 

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Thanks for watching! I hope you use this information to help preserve the anticancer nutrients in your food.