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The heat in mustard doesn't exist until you crush the seed

The heat in mustard does not exist until you crush the seed. Inside a whole seed, two chemicals are kept in separate compartments. They have to be. Put them together and they make something sharp enough to be a weapon, which is exactly the point. It is the plant's defense. Crush it, the walls break, they meet. That sting at the back of your nose is not a flavor sitting in the seed waiting for you. It is a reaction happening in real time because you broke something. Which makes the parable land differently for me. The smallest of all seeds, Jesus says, and the largest of garden plants. Something that small holding something that reactive. There is a kitchen use too, and I want to be careful how strong I make it sound. Cooking destroys that enzyme, so when you boil or roast broccoli and its relatives, the reaction cannot happen properly any more. In one small piece of research, adding a spoon of mustard powder to already cooked broccoli brought a lot of it back, because the mustard supplied the missing enzyme. Twelve people, one study. I would not build a life around it. But a spoonful of mustard on cooked greens costs nothing and tastes good, so it is a fair thing to try. Matthew 13:31-32, NIV