A novel way of curbing health risks associated with air pollution could be consuming a broccoli sprout beverage. Researchers have found that daily consumption of half a cup of broccoli sprout beverage produced rapid significant and sustained higher levels of excretion of benzene - a known human carcinogen - and acrolein a lung irritant. Broccoli sprouts are a source of glucoraphanin - a compound that generates sulforaphane when the plant is chewed or the beverage swallowed. (Read: Compound in broccoli to treat leukaemia?) It acts to increase enzymes that enhance the body's capacity to expunge these types of pollutants. 'Air
