Sentences with phrase «when myrosinase»

When myrosinase enzymes convert glucosinolates found in cruciferous vegetables into thiocyanates (including isothiocyanates), some of the thiocyanates formed have the ability to bind together with free iodine found in the body.

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Sulforaphane is formed when fresh broccoli is chopped or chewed, bringing its precursor glucoraphanin and the enzyme myrosinase into contact with each other.

Sulforaphane is created when the enzyme myrosinase transforms the glucosinolate glucoraphanin into sulforaphane.

Since myrosinase and glucoraphanin are found in different parts of the plant, this change happens when the plant is damaged (by chewing, blending, chopping, etc.) allowing the two compounds to mix and react.

When raw cruciferous vegetables are chopped or chewed, an enzyme called myrosinase comes into contact with glucoraphanin and produces sulforaphane.

It's not a problem when consuming raw cruciferous vegetables; however, when exposed to heat (cooking), myrosinase is deactivated.

When cruciferous vegetables are consumed in cooked form, and especially if they have not been allowed to sit chopped for several minutes prior to cooking, there is unlikely to be much enzyme activity (including myrosinase activity), and the digestive products of the cruciferous vegetables are more likely to pass through the upper digestive tract unabsorbed and continue down into the lower digestive tract (colon).

When you cook cabbage, you kill the special myrosinase enzyme that makes the cabbage so healing, thus making cabbage less effective as anti cancer food.

(4, 5]-RRB- When kale is damaged via chopping or chewing, the enzyme myrosinase helps release isothiocyanates by interacting with glucosinolates.