cruciferous

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
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  • According to new research findings published this month in the journal Cell, these healthy vegetables - known as cruciferous vegetables - can bolster the immune system. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Next, fill your plate with cruciferous vegetables like Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and kale.
  • If you find yourself devoid of both deodorants and cruciferous vegetables, baking soda and cornstarch can work in a pinch to kill bacteria and absorb perspiration.
  • On the world scene, diamondback moth is ranked as the major insect pest of a large number of commercially grown cruciferous plants, including canola.
  • Initial seaweedy flavour gives way to chalky cruciferous bitterness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cruciferous vegetables include broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, bok choy and cauliflower. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eating curly kale and other cruciferous vegetables regularly has been shown to lower the risk of developing life-threatening diseases. Times, Sunday Times
  • â¢Indole 3 carbinol -- A nutritional compound found in cruciferous vegetables broccoli, cabbage, bok choy, cauliflower, eggplant that helps hormone regulation. Marcia G. Yerman: A New Look At The Older Vagina
  • Wherever anbury appears, whether on Cabbages or Turnips or any other cruciferous plant, there should be worked out a complete change in the order of cropping, taking care not to put any brassicaceous plants on the plots where the disease has occurred for two or three seasons, and allowing at least one whole year to pass without growing any of the cruciferous order upon them. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
  • #2 Cruciferous vegetables -- radish, broccoli, cauliflower, rutabaga, cabbage, turnips, turnip greens, contain indole - 3-carbinol, which lowers women's levels of a type of estrogen that may promote breast cancer. (16-hydroxy - estradiol and 16-hydroxy-estrone). Red meat raises risk of breast cancer in adolescence, but is not a risk in post-menopausal women, st
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