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Overcooking sprouts makes them smell like rotten eggs. With high levels of sulforaphane, sprouts should be cooked for only four to six minutes.
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Brussels sprouts were developed from wild cabbage and came from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan although named after the Belgian capital of Brussels after becoming popular in the city in the sixteenth century.
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In December, supermarket Morrisons sells about 650 tonnes of sprouts each week.
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One sprout looks like any other, but there are 50 varieties of the mini green cabbages
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In the run-up to Christmas, farmers run 10 times as many harvesters and work from dawn until dusk picking them.
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One 80-gram serving of these healthy veggies delivers four times more vitamin C than an orange
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There are more than 9,000 ways to cook a sprout. Some examples: Dijon-braised, balsamic-roasted, cherry-glazed, sweet and sour ... and Brussels-sprout-with-grapes bake.
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An area equal to over 3,200 football pitches is covered by Brussels sprout fields in the UK.
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The sprout industry is worth £650,000,000.
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Last year, a team of scientists and local schoolchildren used the energy from 1,000 Brussels sprouts to light a Christmas tree on London's Southbank.
