2011/05/04

Savor Tomato for Cancer Prevention

Tomatoes Someone would know, but them know you when tomatoes were a variety of forms. First tomato fruit, red, thick fleshed, with juicy seeds and basically obtained in traditional Indonesian markets one time.

While smaller and usually orange-green and green when immature, known as sebagal tomato vegetable often used in cooking. In addition there's also small size of a marble called cherry tomatoes. This type of tomato is also used to make the sauce mixture in dish or salad.


Lower Cancer Risk

Tomatoes are not only delicious for cooking, but also nourishing for health. The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute confirm that consumption of tomatoes in sufficient quantities can lower cancer risk, although not all types of cancer. From 72 studies conducted, 57 states have relevance tomato consumption with a reduced risk of cancer, according to Dr. Edward Giovannucci of Harvard Medical School.

"The information linking the consumption of all tomatoes with prostate cancer, lung and digestive technique," said Giovannucci. His discovery also shows that consumption of tomatoes may reduce the risk of other cancers such as pancreatic, colon, breast and cervix.

"It's best to eat tomatoes as a healthy diet, like other fruit or vegetable consumption," said Dr. Moshe Shike director of the Cancer Prevention and Wellness Program, Cancer Middle, New York, colleagues Giovannuci.

Only, sometimes tomatoes mixed with fat and sugar that is not lovely for health if consumed much. such as fresh tomatoes consumed with cheese. High-fat sources that ought to be reduced.

Giovannucci own conduct research on tomatoes in any form, whether raw, sauce, pasta, soup or salad. Efficacy was present in all these preparations, the study also concluded that the compound benefits of tomatoes do not interfere with the cooking and processing.

But if compared from all types of tomato, which is best consumed is red tomatoes or tomato fruit. Red tomatoes contain vitamin C and vitamin A times over tomatoes. The more ripe tomatoes, the rich content of vitamins. Substances in tomatoes when cooked with other vegetables were not lost even destroy Free Radicals in cooking.


Best Red Tomato

Unlike other vegetables that are more useful if it is consumed fresh or raw bahka, it turns out better tomatoes mixed with food or destroyed before consumption. The researchers found lycopene in tomatoes was issued over if eaten directly without being processed first. Regrettably, although the content of lycopennya ample, tomato paste and tomato sauce sold in the market are laced with plenty of additives such as dyes or synthetic preservatives.

Besides vitamin C of red pigment in tomatoes also have more value. Increasingly red tomatoes contain lycopene, the name of antioxidants that can destroy free radicals in the body caused by smoking, pollution and ultraviolet rays. Lycopene content is what efficacious help prevent destroy to cells - trigger cervical cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer and pancreatic cancer.

Facts behind the tomato:

Highly recommended to make their own tomato sauce or paste tomatoes so that the content is useful not contaminated with hazardous substances that would trigger the destruction of body cells.

  one. Sour taste of tomatoes comes from malik acid and citric acid.
  one. Tomato fruit stimulates the release of digestive enzymes, those from the pancreas. To increase employment gastrointestinal tract, drinking tomato juice every day before meals.
  two. Tomato juice berkasiat tonic for individuals who are sick or in the healing phase.
  two. Traditional Chinese medicine proves, tomatoes have a fever suppressant properties (antiseptic) and detoxing (detoksikan).
  two. Processed as stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, and pasta makes lycopene more basically absorbed so it is more efficacious for the prevention of cancer of the prostate and heart disease.
  6. Be alert for people sensitive to tomatoes, because allergies can arise in the gastrointestinal tract due to the content of saponin, solanine, and histamine.

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