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• The influence of selenium addition during germination of Brassica seeds on health-promoting potential of sprouts

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  • A. Piekarska
  • D. Kołodziejski
  • T. Pilipczuk
  • M. Bodnar
  • P. Konieczka
  • B. Kusznierewicz
  • F. Hanschen
  • M. Schreiner
  • J. Cyprys
  • M. Groszewska... and 2 others

  - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCES AND NUTRITION - Year 2014

  The correlation among selenium uptake, the content of bioactive compounds in sprouts, and biological activities triggered in cultured human cells by sprout extracts was investigated. Seeds of Brassica crops and rye were treated with SeO2 water solution. The selenium levels in sprouts increased from 1.0-4.1 to 53.3-382 μg/g dw with no influence on plant physiology according to the indices used. Neither the composition of glucosinolates...

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