Orange tomatoes better for you? Special variety contains more easily absorbed antioxidant, scientists say
Food scientists at Ohio State University in Columbus have grown a special variety of orange tomatoes that may be healthier than garden-variety red tomatoes. The orange tomatoes contain a type of lycopene that is more readily used by the body than the type found in red tomatoes, they report.
Lycopene — an antioxidant thought to have a number of health benefits such as reducing the risk of cancer, heart disease and age-related eye problems — is what gives red tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables their rich color.
Dr. Steven Schwartz and colleagues had 12 adult volunteers eat two spaghetti test meals on separate occasions. One meal was made with sauce from the orange tomatoes and the other with sauce from red tomatoes. For 13 days before the test meals, the volunteers avoided eating tomatoes or food made with them.
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Orange Tomato -
9th March 2007
