If you’ve been putting lettuce on your sandwiches and packing pita-bread sandwiches with alfalfa sprouts, think again.

Now you can put all the goodness of broccoli into your meals in the form of easy-to-eat BroccoSprouts.

The best part is that the thread-like sprouts require no cooking, are readily available in supermarket produce departments and pack a powerful punch of an antioxidant that’s 20 times more concentrated than in adult broccoli.

Three newly published studies show that BroccoSprouts which are really 3-day-old broccoli sprouted from broccoli seeds may help prevent colon cancer, stroke and vision loss.

How’s the taste? Not like broccoli at all, but peppery-hot in a mild sort of way and reminiscent of fresh-cut green cabbage, also in a mild sort of way. The sprouts, cooked or fresh, could easily be worked into other recipes accepted by picky eaters.

Next up: Brassica Protection Products, the developers of BroccoSprouts, is test-marketing tea bags that blend green tea with the broccoli compound. Again, there’s no broccoli taste, but it puts the health-giving properties into a more shelf-stable food product than sprouts.