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These findings, published in 1992, attracted worldwide attention as a major breakthrough in understanding the potential link between cruciferous vegetable consumption and reduced cancer risk.
Cruciferous vegetables are one of the dominant food crops worldwide.
Moths are active usually at twilight and at night, feeding on flowers of cruciferous plants, but they also fly in the afternoon during mass outbreaks.
Cruciferous vegetable consumption correlates with low cancer rates.
Other dietary compounds, such as diallyl disulfide present in garlic and sulforaphane present in cruciferous vegetables, have been associated with cancer prevention in clinical trials.
They can be controlled by crop rotation, the destruction of cruciferous weeds and the use of insecticides.
Tomato cooked with oil, allium vegetables like garlic, and cruciferous vegetables like cauliflower probably contain compounds which are under research for their possible anti-cancer activity.
Book two included uses for animals, parts of animals, animal products, cereals, leguminous, malvaceous, cruciferous, and other garden herbs.
