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Dehydrated Tomatoes May Prevent Prostate Cancer
by dixter, May 31, 2008 09:26PM
Dehydrated Tomatoes May Prevent Prostate Cancer
New research suggests that one specific form of tomatoes — tomato paste made from dehydrated tomatoes — may have the ability to prevent prostate cancer. When mice were fed tomato paste plus FruHis, an organic carbohydrate found in dehydrated tomato products, and then injected with chemicals that cause prostate cancer, the tomato products stopped the development of cancer 90 percent of the time.
“Processing of many edible plants through heating, grinding, mixing, or drying dramatically increases their nutritional value, including their cancer prevention potential,” said Valeri Mossine, Ph.D, research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Missouri. “It appears that the greatest protective effect from tomatoes comes by rehydrating tomato powder into tomato paste.”
When researchers added lycopene to FruHis and tested the mixture on cells in virto, cancer growth stopped more than 98 percent of the time!
“Experiments like this suggest that a combination of FruHis and lycopene should be investigated as a potential therapeutic anti-tumor agent, not just a prevention strategy,” said Mossine.
NEWSMAX.
New research suggests that one specific form of tomatoes — tomato paste made from dehydrated tomatoes — may have the ability to prevent prostate cancer. When mice were fed tomato paste plus FruHis, an organic carbohydrate found in dehydrated tomato products, and then injected with chemicals that cause prostate cancer, the tomato products stopped the development of cancer 90 percent of the time.
“Processing of many edible plants through heating, grinding, mixing, or drying dramatically increases their nutritional value, including their cancer prevention potential,” said Valeri Mossine, Ph.D, research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Missouri. “It appears that the greatest protective effect from tomatoes comes by rehydrating tomato powder into tomato paste.”
When researchers added lycopene to FruHis and tested the mixture on cells in virto, cancer growth stopped more than 98 percent of the time!
“Experiments like this suggest that a combination of FruHis and lycopene should be investigated as a potential therapeutic anti-tumor agent, not just a prevention strategy,” said Mossine.
NEWSMAX.
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Tomatoes are indeed an important food. The research on lycopene is currently ongoing.
While all this is exciting, the important thing to keep in mind is that the diet should be balanced. The tomato is part of a Mediterranean style of diet which seems beenficial for heart disease, so trying to include this food in your diet would already have benefits whether or not this prostate cancer reduction is really borne out with future research.