, Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University , Semarang , Indonesia 1 Food Quality and Design, Wageningen University & Research , Bornse Weilanden 9, 6708 WG Wageningen , Netherlands 2 Ruud Verkerk 3 Center
Stir-frying is a cooking method, originating from Asia, in which food is fried in small amount of very hot oil. Nowadays in many other parts of the world stir-frying is a very popular method to prepare vegetables, because it is fast and fried vegetables are tasty. However, the retention of phytochemicals like the health-beneficial glucosinolates in Brassica vegetables is less...
author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Ruud Verkerk obtained his BSc on general microbiology and received his PhD in food technology
Aims This study explores the biofumigation effects of glucosinolate (GSL) containing Brassica oleracea plant material on beneficial, non-target soil organisms, and aims to relate those effects to differences in GSL profiles. Methods Leaf material of purple sprouting broccoli ‘Santee’, Savoy cabbage ‘Wintessa’, and the wild B. oleracea accession Winspit was analysed for GSL...
protect against chronic diseases. MATTHIJS DEKKER RUUD VERKERK REFERENCES (1) Hung HC, Joshipura KJ, Jiang R, Hu FB, Hunter D, Smith-Warner SA, et al. Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of major
The aim of this study was to investigate the chemopreventive effects of widely consumed cruciferous vegetables, namely Brussels sprouts and red cabbage towards 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ)-induced preneoplastic lesions [liver glutathione-S-transferase placental positive (GST-P+) foci and colonic aberrant crypt foci (ACF)]. Male F344 rats were treated with IQ (100...
