If you are holding out for another reason to eat your broccoli, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists found a compound in the green sprouts better than sunblock that can protect you from skin cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation.

A chemical called sulfurophane ? already found to protect against a rare brittle-skin disorder ? can disrupt the cancer-causing effects of ultraviolet light without having any sun-blocking ability, according to a report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.