Go for red tomatoes. They may help save you from cancer.
The red pigment in tomatoes is lycopene, a strongantioxidant. New tests by British researchers find that lycopene isfour times stronger than other vegetable antioxidants at neutralizingthe cell-damaging, cancer-promoting effects of cigarette smoke.
In another recent study, investigators in Hawaii found thatlycopene actually destroyed cancer cells.
Luckily, you get lots of lycopene in fresh tomatoes and in allkinds of canned tomato products. Lycopene is not destroyed by heat.
Here, expressed in milligrams, are the amounts of lycopene invarious tomato products, according to a new analysis …
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