
Although few may know it, broccoli is a fantastic super-food. One cup of cooked broccoli provides 100% of the recommended daily intake of vitamin C, and if you steam it rather than boil it you retain even more vitamin C. The darker the florets/heads, the higher the amounts of both vitamin C and beta-carotene (what the body turns into vitamin A). The florets, in turn, are richer in beta-carotene than the stalks.