Broccoli
How do cruciferous vegetables fight abdominal fat?
One job task I love is teaching my clients that hire me for nutritional counseling about the use of cruciferous vegetables to fight against abdominal fat.
Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, etc. contain unique and specific phytonutrients such as indole-3-carbinol (I3C) that helps to fight against estrogenic compounds due to harmful xenoestrogens ingested in food or environmental exposure. Continued exposure to xenoestrogens causes hormone balance disruptions for both women and men.
Cruciferous vegetables boost testosterone levels by regulating appropriate estrogen levels. Elevated testosterone levels can help increase or regain muscle mass, assist in weight loss, heighten energy, and improve your sex drive.
Cooking
When comparing cooking methods, steaming for 10 minutes or less, revealed significantly greater retention of chlorophyll, vitamin C, total soluble proteins, soluble sugars, total aliphatic and indole glucosinolates.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722699/
Broccoli
Look for deep emerald (purple-ish is ok, too) color and compact clusters. The more flowering of the florettes the older the broccoli. If broccoli is yellow it has passed a desirable texture. Choose strong and firm stocks that are not woody. Once chosen, broccoli should be stored in the refrigerator, dry and used within one week.
I tried this broccoli salad with 3 different salad dressings; sesame ginger, light vinaigrette Caesar and balsamic vinaigrette. On the sesame ginger salad I switched out the sunflower seeds for peanuts. All were delicious but I think I liked to the Caesar vinaigrette the best.
Ingredients
Lightly blanched broccoli florets 🥦
Shaved red onion 🧅
Carrot stix 🥕
Craisins 😜
Sunflower seeds or peanuts 🥜
Optional thick shredded cheddar cheese🥗
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