Comments on: “Eat your Broccoli” http://www.celebritydietdoctor.com/%e2%80%9ceat-your-broccoli%e2%80%9d/ The inside skinny on celebrity diets and celebrity weight loss Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:05:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JC http://www.celebritydietdoctor.com/%e2%80%9ceat-your-broccoli%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-61 JC Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:54:32 +0000 http://www.celebritydietdoctor.com/%e2%80%9ceat-your-broccoli%e2%80%9d/#comment-61 Something interesting I just read about broccoli. Not everyone tastes broccoli the same way. It depends on the genes. "Those individuals who had two copies of the protein that binds strongly to PTC thought broccoli and its relatives to be bitter. These people had inherited one copy of this gene from each of their parents. Another group of people inherited one gene whose protein bound PTC less strongly, and those individuals could tolerate broccoli, but they didn’t particularly like it (your author is probably in that subset). The third group inherited two copies of the gene that produce a protein that binds only weakly to PTC and they found broccoli and its relatives quite palatable." http://www.stanford.edu/~jpc/Chapter1.htm#_A_Taste_for Something interesting I just read about broccoli. Not everyone tastes broccoli the same way. It depends on the genes.

“Those individuals who had two copies of the protein that binds strongly to PTC thought broccoli and its relatives to be bitter. These people had inherited one copy of this gene from each of their parents. Another group of people inherited one gene whose protein bound PTC less strongly, and those individuals could tolerate broccoli, but they didn’t particularly like it (your author is probably in that subset). The third group inherited two copies of the gene that produce a protein that binds only weakly to PTC and they found broccoli and its relatives quite palatable.”

http://www.stanford.edu/~jpc/Chapter1.htm#_A_Taste_for

]]> By: JC http://www.celebritydietdoctor.com/%e2%80%9ceat-your-broccoli%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-43 JC Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:32:13 +0000 http://www.celebritydietdoctor.com/%e2%80%9ceat-your-broccoli%e2%80%9d/#comment-43 I hear it's best to let the cut florets sit for 10 minutes before cooking to increase the myrosinase (anti-cancer) activity. I hear it’s best to let the cut florets sit for 10 minutes before cooking to increase the myrosinase (anti-cancer) activity.

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