Lycopene is a good helper for anti-cancer
In recent years, more and more medical research indicates that tomatoes have a very good effect in promoting human health, it can protect cells from oxidant erosion, can slow or prevent breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer process.
Introduction of anti-cancer effect of the tomato, can not fail to mention the lycopene. The lycopene (Lycopene) is a carotenoid, red, was first isolated from tomato in the system, it is called lycopene. Lycopene is the strongest antioxidant activity of carotenoids, carotenoid anti-cancer mechanism is mainly inhibition of cancer cell phospholipid metabolism, lycopene regulation of tumor suppressor genes, and reduce the incidence of tumors, and in vitro experiments show can be inhibit tumor cell proliferation effect. Clear the rate constant of singlet oxygen is 100 times the commonly used antioxidant vitamin E, beta-carotene twice as much.
Detroit, USA Carl the Manos Cancer Institute researchers will be divided into two groups of 33 patients with prostate cancer, a group of 30 consecutive days taking lycopene, another group refused to accept.
The patients underwent surgery after doctors found that taking lycopene in patients with cancer cell proliferation slowed.
Israel Hebrew University researchers found that lycopene added to the culture medium containing oral cancer, cancer cells will gradually die.
Scientists predict that in the future, such as anti-oxidants such as lycopene, can extend the life of the person's 30% -50%. Europe and the United States of lycopene research has been continuing to promote the famous Mediterranean healthy diet, tomato sauce meal essential, the incidence of cardiovascular disease and tumors of the local residents is significantly lower, the role of lycopene denied.
Tomatoes do not eat with cucumber
Since the human body can not synthesize lycopene so only through dietary intake. The lycopene in tomatoes, watermelon, red grapefruit and other fruits and red palm oil, the content is very low in other vegetables and fruits. Among them, the highest content of lycopene in tomatoes, and their contents are different varieties and maturity, maturity, the higher the more lycopene content.
We need to pay attention to eating tomatoes: You can not eat unripe tomato. Immature tomato contains a lot of tomato base, eat occur poisoning, nausea, vomiting and general fatigue and other symptoms, serious will happen to life-threatening.
Ripe tomato, this harmful substances largely disappeared; raw tomato should be to open a hot wash to avoid infection of the bacteria and parasite eggs; heating cooking should be kept to emergency fire fried foods to avoid vitamin destruction; Do not together eating cucumber, cucumber, contain large amounts of vitamin C, enzymes, and easy to make vitamin C in tomato destruction; Do not eat the tomato fasting, fasting gastric acid secretion, tomato contains a lot of pectin, persimmon plastic phenol and soluble astringent components, easily combined with the acid into insoluble massive stones heap live in the pylorus of the stomach at the exit, so that the intragastric pressure, resulting in stomach discomfort, stomach pain.