When you think “kid food," you probably harken back to childhood dinners of chicken nuggets, cheeseburgers, and yes, the sad and lonely broccoli pile you never wanted to eat. Turns out, neither did your parents: According to a Mintel report, broccoli purchases plummet once a couple's kids move out.

We understand why parents want to cram their kids full of broccoli and its cruciferous cousins: Both broccoli and cauliflower are chock full of vitamins and minerals. So full, in fact, that both should be a routine part of a healthy adult diet—even though they’re not.

There are plenty of reasons to hope for newfound cruciferous coolness. But still, we wondered: Which veggie is healthier, broccoli or cauliflower? We boiled them both down to the raw facts below:

Prevention

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