Sulforaphane: Will Play a Big Role in 'Personalized Nutrition'

Sulforaphane, also known as "sulforaphane", contains a large amount of sulforaphane precursors - glucosinlates (glucosinlates, a glucosinolate) in cruciferous plants such as broccoli, kale, and cauliflower.

The Past and Present of Broccoli and Sulforaphane

For the first time, broccoli has attracted public attention as not only a vegetable.

At that time, global cancer incidence and mortality remained high, and many researchers, including Talalay, began to actively seek solutions

This new discovery of sulforaphane caused two out of stock broccoli seeds worldwide

The discovery of sulforaphane was just the beginning, and when scientists wanted to extract sulforaphane for more scientific research, problems arose: sulforaphane is extremely unstable at room temperature, and slight changes in conditions during extraction It will affect the extraction of sulforaphane

After solving this mystery, the scientific research and application of sulforaphane began to become smooth

In 2001, French scientists first discovered that sulforaphane can induce cytoprotective enzymes through Nrf2, one of the most important signaling pathways for human cells to maintain active health

However, while the foreign glucoraphanin/vegetarian industry is thriving, the domestic market cannot use this raw material due to restrictions on relevant regulations

Significant increase in the number of sulforaphane-related literature

With the aging process, the incidence of chronic diseases is increasing.

After the development of human genome sequencing and molecular networks, it was recognized that the occurrence and development of various chronic diseases with different clinical manifestations share a common molecular mechanism, which has resulted in a new non-specific symptom or organ-based It is a concept of nutrition targeted intervention aimed at the common molecular mechanism of chronic diseases - systemic nutrition targeted intervention, that is, "multiple chronic diseases, one nutrition targeted intervention method"

More and more scientists are further exploring sulforaphane, and there is a growing interest in introducing it into clinical applications

Build a whole industry chain of nutritionally targeted food

In 2017, the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Food Science and Technology Innovation" listed key breakthroughs in creating new nutritional and healthy foods with targeted nutrition design as subversive technologies, emphasizing the need to use "nutromics technology to promote the precision manufacturing of healthy food and realize the realization of food.

　　Under the guidance of this plan, the Shenzhen Fushan Biological R&D team is committed to researching and finding edible ingredients that can target and activate the genome

　　The R&D team of Fushan Bio has further expanded the construction of upstream raw materials, and established the production process of water extract of broccoli seeds by taking advantage of the technical advantages in the breeding of seeds with high glucoraphanin content and the steady-state enrichment process of glucoraphanin

　　(Source: Sulforaphane Research Institute)

　　"China Food News" (05 edition on April 12, 2022)

　　(Editor in charge: Huang Guangshun)