There’s plenty of good reasons for you to always eat your broccoli, but for women who are at a high risk of breast cancer, or those that have already been diagnosed, broccoli is an especially important vegetable. Broccoli contains a particular gener, limarase, which can directly attack cancerous cells and induce apoptosis, by breaking down into cyanide, one of the most deadly toxins we know of. Broccoli is also a great source of minerals and nutrients to promote healthy immune function and protect against invasion by foreign pathogens and mutated cells.