This is especially good news for people who don’t get eat the recommended serving of veggies.
If you only eat one vegetable, make it broccoli.
“It does a number of things,” he said.
“As it goes through the small intestine it helps to balance your immune system. And then the fibre from the broccoli that can’t be digested goes along to the colon, which is the last part of the bowel, where most of the gut bugs reside and they start feasting on the fibre and making short chain fatty acids.”