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ReviewNutrients2022

Is Bitterness Only a Taste? The Expanding Area of Health Benefits of Brassica Vegetables and Potential for Bitter Taste Receptors to Support Health Benefits.

Anqi Zhao, Elizabeth H Jeffery, Michael J Miller

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Review in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Correlation Between theEpidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  6. Glucosinolates from Seed-Press Cake ofAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  7. Current research in food science · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anqi ZhaoDivision of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6006-9796
Elizabeth H JefferyDepartment of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Michael J MillerDivision of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8579-1080
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

United States Department of Agriculture 2019-38420-28973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The list of known health benefits from inclusion of brassica vegetables in the diet is long and growing. Once limited to cancer prevention, a role for brassica in prevention of oxidative stress and anti-inflammation has aided in our understanding that brassica provide far broader benefits. These include prevention and treatment of chronic diseases of aging such as diabetes, neurological deterioration, and heart disease. Although animal and cell culture studies are consistent, clinical studies often show too great a variation to confirm these benefits in humans. In this review, we discuss causes of variation in clinical studies, focusing on the impact of the wide variation across humans in commensal bacterial composition, which potentially result in variations in microbial metabolism of glucosinolates. In addition, as research into host-microbiome interactions develops, a role for bitter-tasting receptors, termed T2Rs, in the gastrointestinal tract and their role in entero-endocrine hormone regulation is developing. Here, we summarize the growing literature on mechanisms of health benefits by brassica-derived isothiocyanates and the potential for extra-oral T2Rs as a novel mechanism that may in part describe the variability in response to brassica among free-living humans, not seen in research animal and cell culture studies.

Indexed as

BrassicaTasteAnimalsDietGlucosinolatesVegetablesGlucosinolatesbitter taste receptorbrassicaglucosinolategut microbiotaisothiocyanatenuclear factor-erythroid 2 p45-related factor 2

Identifiers

PMID35406047
PMCPMC9002472
OpenAlexW4220707291

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