When a vegetable is growing, it protects itself from insects by producing chemical nutrients thatmake it taste bad or seem repellant to predators.
蔬菜在生长的过程中会产生化学养分，使其口感变差或让捕食者排斥，以此来保护自己免受虫害。
Some of these nutrients—in particularphytochemicals—have been shown to fight cancer in people.
这其中的一些化学养分，特别是植物素，已经被证明可以用于人类抵抗癌症。
What's more, many vegetables areable to anticipate when insects will attack, and will ramp up its defenses accordingly.
并且，许多蔬菜都能够提前预见昆虫的进攻，并相应地增加自身防御力。

Even after vegetables are harvested and they're no longer fighting insects, these garden wonderscan still be made to produce more nutrients at certain times.
即便蔬菜已经丰收，无需再抵抗昆虫，这些菜园中的奇迹依旧能在某些时候产生较多的营养素。
This is done by varying a vegetable'slight exposure to simulate the experience of night turning into day.
方法就是通过改变蔬菜的光照量来制造出昼夜交替的效果。
Studies have shown thatvegetables stored this way produce more phytochemicals during the light cycle.
研究表明这种方式下储存的蔬菜会在光照周期中产生更多的植物素。
So eating vegetables during this golden period means you're getting more nutritional value!Exactly.
所以在这段黄金时间吃蔬菜意味着你能获得更多的营养价值！
It's not yet clear how people might be able to activate these nutrition-packed properties at home.
至于人们如何能在家就激活这些储存的营养素，还不甚清楚。
Perhaps simply storing veggies in the dark and then subjecting them to a flash of light is enoughto trigger the process.
也许只是简单地将蔬菜储存在暗处再给予它们一闪光亮就足以触发这一过程。
Or it could be more complex.
或者还会更复杂。
In any case, more research could help us findways to eating vegetables' even more helpful.
无论如何，更多的研究会帮助我们找到使蔬菜营养价值最大化的方法。