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IbnIbrahim:
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What’s So Great About Them?

Tomatoes are loaded with a substance called lycopene. It gives them their bright red color and helps protect them from the ultraviolet rays of the sun. In much the same way, it can help protect your cells from damage. Tomatoes also have potassium, vitamins B and E, and other nutrients.


1. Immune System

Lycopene is an antioxidant -- it fights molecules called free radicals that can damage your cells and affect your immune system. Because of that, foods high in lycopene, like tomatoes, may make you less likely to have lung, stomach, or prostate cancer. Some research shows they might help prevent the disease in the pancreas, colon, throat, mouth, breast, and cervix as well.

2. Heart

Lycopene also may help lower your levels of LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, as well as your blood pressure. And that may lower your chances of heart disease. Other nutrients in tomatoes, like vitamins B and E and antioxidants called flavonoids, may boost your heart health, too.

3. Eyes

Tomatoes have substances called lutein and zeaxanthin that may help protect your eyes from the blue light made by digital devices like smartphones and computers. They also may help keep your eyes from feeling tired and ease headaches from eyestrain. And some research shows they may even make you less likely to have a more serious form of the leading cause of blindness in the U.S.: age-related macular degeneration.

4. Lungs

Some studies show that tomatoes may be helpful for people who have asthma and may help prevent emphysema, a condition that slowly damages the air sacs in your lungs. That may be because lycopene, lutein, and zeaxanthin, among other antioxidants, fight the harmful substances in tobacco smoke, which is the leading cause of emphysema. Scientists are trying to learn more about those effects.

5. Blood Vessels

Getting more tomatoes into your diet may make you less likely to have a stroke, which is when blood flow gets cut off to a part of your brain. Studies suggest that they may ease inflammation, boost your immune system, lower your cholesterol levels, and keep your blood from clotting. All those things may help prevent strokes.

6. Oral Health

Studies have shown that lycopene may help with the gum diseases gingivitis and periodontitis in the same way it may help prevent cancer -- by fighting free radicals. But eating lots of raw tomatoes can damage the enamel on your teeth -- thanks to the high amount of acid -- and brushing soon afterward can make that worse. It’s a good idea to wait at least 30 minutes before you brush

7. Skin
You know hats and sunscreen can help shield you from the sun. Well, the lycopene in tomatoes may do something for that, too, possibly in the same way it protects tomatoes. But you don’t put it on your skin -- it works on your cells from the inside.


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You're forgetting to mention prostrate enlargement for men. Very nice eaten fresh.

The use and hype of antioxidants to "fight" free radicals is pseudoscience.

Good

me? eat raw tomato/onions?...God forbid! if I try it, I'll vomit all my intestines.

trustyshoess:
The use and hype of antioxidants to "fight" free radicals is pseudoscience.

How is it pseudoscience?

IbnIbrahim:
How is it pseudoscience?

There's so many reasons why but in short, there's zero evidence for these claims. It's just another craze which fake scientists use to make money. People spend lots of money buying antioxidants that do nothing and may even be harmful.
Do a little research and you'll know why
Start here : https://sciencebasedlife./2011/08/13/the-antioxidant-craze-do-they-work/

And read "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre

trustyshoess:
There's so many reasons why but in short, there's zero evidence for these claims. It's just another craze which fake scientists use to make money. People spend lots of money buying antioxidants that do nothing and may even be harmful.
Do a little research and you'll know why
Start here : https://sciencebasedlife./2011/08/13/the-antioxidant-craze-do-they-work/

And read "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre

Ok thanks.

I will read them up
Whatever it is, the real scientists are equally guilty of the same accusation

winzy:
Can I mix with cold orijin?

I fink McDowells will be a better job

trustyshoess:
The use and hype of antioxidants to "fight" free radicals is pseudoscience.

Please explain better.

I like tomato juice, but its not available to buy in supermarket

free2ryhme:
is it the raw tomatoes or the fired ( cooked ) tomatoes as stew

Raw (Fresh)

simonlee:
i totally agree with you OP but the problem now is that we nigerians literally kill that *lycopene* with our cooking methods before the food is even ready for consumption. Imaging boiling the grounded tomatoes for hours before deep frying it in adulterated oil and you're still expecting any intending nutrient to remain active
I just taya for my country people o

Surprisingly, the more you cook tomatoes the better it is...

winzy:
Can I mix with cold orijin?

Were re oo!!