. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 26.

Published in final edited form as: J Agric Food Chem. 2011 Sep 30;59(20):10955–10963. doi: 10.1021/jf202887c

Table 5.

Percent each SFN compound and each ERN compound represent within each group of compounds excreted during 24 h (Day 1 and Day 7) after consumption of broccoli sprouts or broccoli supplement^a

	Sprouts	Supplement

	%^b	%	P-value^c
SFN compounds
SFN	7.8 ± 3.2	9.4 ± 4.3	0.334
SFN-GSH	0.09 ± 0.23	0.01 ± 0.01	0.291
SFN-CG	0.25 ± 0.20	0.13 ± 0.09	0.077
SFN-Cys	23.2 ± 7.2	16.1 ± 6.4	0.023
SFN-NAC	68.7 ± 6.8	74.4 ± 5.7	0.044
ERN compounds
ERN-GSH	0.15 ± 0.47	0.02 ± 0.04	0.391
ERN-CG	0.19 ± 0.42	0.001 ± 0.006	0.164
ERN-Cys	18.4 ± 4.7	17.1 ± 6.7	0.624
ERN-NAC	81.3 ± 4.6	82.8 ± 6.7	0.536

Mean ± SEM.

Percentage each compound represents within the its respective group of compounds (i.e. SFN compounds and ERN compounds)

Student's t-test between sprouts and supplement groups for percent of each metabolite