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US 5,968,505 AGranted
Cancer chemoprotective food products
AssigneeJohns Hopkins School of Medicine
InventorsJed W. Fahey, Paul Talalay
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Abstract
Vegetable sources of cancer chemoprotective agents have been identified which are extraordinarily rich in glucosinolates, metabolic precursors of isothiocyanates. The vegetable sources are used to provide a dietary means of reducing the level of carcinogens in mammals.
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A method of increasing the chemoprotective amount of Phase 2 enzymes in a mammal, comprising the steps of:
- (a) identifying seeds which produce cruciferous sprouts, with the exception of Brassica oleracea capitata, Lepidium sativum, Sinapis alba, Sinapis nigra, and Raphanus sativus sprouts, containing high Phase 2 enzyme-inducing potential and non-toxic levels of indole glucosinolates and their breakdown products and goitrogenic hydroxybutenyl glucosinolates;
- (b) germinating said seeds;
- (c) harvesting said sprouts between the onset of germination up to and including the 2-leaf stage to form a food product comprising a plurality of sprouts;
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- (d) administering said food product, or a non-toxic extract of said food product, to said mammal.
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A method of reducing the level of carcinogens in a mammal, comprising the steps of:
- (a) identifying seeds which produce cruciferous sprouts, with the exception of Brassica oleracea capitata, Lepidium sativum, Sinapis alba, Sinapis nigra, and Raphanus sativus sprouts, containing high Phase 2 enzyme-inducing potential and non-toxic levels of indole glucosinolates and their breakdown products and goitrogenic hydroxybutenyl glucosinolates;
- (b) germinating said seeds;
- (c) harvesting said sprouts between the onset of germination up to and including the 2-leaf stage to form a food product comprising a plurality of sprouts;
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- (d) administering said food product, or a non-toxic extract of said food product, to said mammal.
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