Eating rhubarb, a vegetable can be cooked in sweet or savory dishes, could become the basis for a new cancer treatment, since eating this food cooked for 20 minutes dramatically increased levels of cancer-fighting substances in the body. The researchers have discovered Sheffield Hallam University and the Scottish Crop Research Institute, whose findings were published in the journal Food Chemistry’.
Anticarcinogenic substances in the body increases the vegetable are called polyphenols and has been shown to selectively kill or may prevent the progression of cancer cells. Thus they can be used to develop new, less toxic treatments for this disease, even cancers resistant to other treatments. (more…)