It's very hard to do those kind of studies, because we don't always know which chemicals we're looking for. So i think by us being forced by the food industry to move towards sweeter things, we are moving away from the natural defence chemicals in many of these plants that we now consider a bit too bitter. And all the brassikers have high levels of polypenols, even the famous brussels sprouts, et cetera. We've been always goi on about every christmas, but that kind of bitterness, i think kids are not taught to eat it as as much, and that's changing even in one generation. I think, let's stick with
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