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I used to question the wisdom of buying those little boxes of broccoli sprouts at Whole Foods. I mean, preventing cancer is a noble goal, but $2.39 seems like an awful lot of money for a vegetable that isn’t even fully grown.

But today I discovered another value-add of broccoli sprouts: just like planting grass on a muddy hillside keeps the hill from washing away in the rain, adding sprouts to a sandwich provides critical traction to keep the insides of the sandwich from squirting out the back side when you take a bite. They’re like a small-scale erosion-control program, with a lovely health benefit on the side.