The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday warned Nigerians against the consumption of rotten tomatoes to forestall cancer.

Mrs Christiana Essenwa, a Deputy Director with the agency, gave the warning in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Onitsha.

According to her, rotten tomatoes contain micro organisms that induce cancer.

She explained that “once tomatoes become rotten, it will have micro organisms, mostly fungi, and fungi in rotten tomatoes produce mycotoxins which are deadly and induce cancer, and cause immune deficiency in man and animals.

“Mycotoxins are deadly, and can cause all sorts of poisoning in the body,” the director said.

She said that some research suggested that mycotoxins could also cause kidney damage.

According to her, some people think that rotten tomatoes which are cheap, can be consumed after washing and heating.

She, however, stressed that the toxins could not be washed or killed by heating “because mycotoxins are heat-resistant.”

She, therefore, advised consumers to keep-off rotten tomatoes often sold cheap in the market, saying “it was better to spend money to prolong life than to use such money to buy death.”

http://www.metronaija.ng/keep-off-rotten-tomatoes-to-avoid-cancer-nafdac-warns-nigerians/

Noted

They contain fungi spores

NAFDAC has run out of research...


Rotten tomatoes na today...?

98% of Afonja bukkas serve stew prepared with rotten tomatoes & pepper.

*spits

We see money buy fresh one? Abi who no like better thing?

but consumption of at a ESA had been on for long na.Please nobody should ask me what I mean by 'ata ESA' o

What of ewedu

LuciferKristi:
98% of Afonja bukkas serve stew prepared with rotten tomatoes & pepper.

*spits

How do you know all this? It seems you have patronized them before

We dey talk of Osun robbery una dey talk rotten tomatoes.. Abegi!!!

But how can those who always eat at different canteens know the type of tomato they use

Yoruba's call it Esa

Igbos call it awarawa

NAFDAC calls it cancer


I call it the cheapest tomatoes in the market. I am yet to see who had died eating it.

Olodo NAFDAC

Beremx:
Yoruba's call it Esa

Igbos call it awarawa

NAFDAC calls it cancer


I call it the cheapest tomatoes in the market. I am yet to see who had died eating it.

Olodo NAFDAC

thank u jare

That's exactly what our Lagos canteen buy, cook for us to eat oh

Lies. 90% of mama put use rotten tomatoea. Y we never get cancer

Bluezy13:
NAFDAC have run out of research...


Rotten tomatoes na today...?

Cancer na today?

lol, NAFDAC forming CDC (center for disease control) the only cancer killing Nigerians is HUNGER! Tomatoes can't do Nada.

Village people don't want to hear that one

Can somebody please tell this sanctimonious hyena that people are not eating rotten vegetables because they taste better than fresh ones?

Can someone please tell this congenital numbskull that his advice is noted but a lot of people have no choice?

Please tell this madman that Nigerians know what is good yet they make do with what is not simply because the government of the day headed by his employer and boss make it so!

Ah-ah?!?! Will any sane person see fresh tomatoes and say he wants to eat decaying ones?

Iya canteen

Roadside food vendors

madridguy:
We see money buy fresh one? Abi who no like better thing?

I dislike when people generalize and speak on behalf of 220,000,000 people


If you cant afford it doesn't mean all other people cant


Personalize your travails

R2bees:
We dey talk of Osun robbery una dey talk rotten tomatoes.. Abegi!!!

Dont tell me you are still pained

There are people manufacturing fake drugs which are made available over the counter, fake soft drinks with coloring etc, NAFDAC won't issue warnings about those, it is rotten tomatoes that our forebears ate that will now cause cancer?

Ok o. Let's see the results of your research.

Most of those eateries and bukas are guilty of buying rotten tomatoes to minimize cost. Nigerians are just suffering and smiling.

AKA awarawa

NAFDAC, since the days of John the Baptist, our parents have been cooking with that tomatoes and now we have all grown up we haven't gotten CANCER. Make una go seat down

I'm only concern and worried about the food sellers especially Lagos food sellers.

They use bad tomatoes

olokeded:
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday warned Nigerians against the consumption of rotten tomatoes to forestall cancer.

Mrs Christiana Essenwa, a Deputy Director with the agency, gave the warning in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Onitsha.

According to her, rotten tomatoes contain micro organisms that induce cancer.

She explained that “once tomatoes become rotten, it will have micro organisms, mostly fungi, and fungi in rotten tomatoes produce mycotoxins which are deadly and induce cancer, and cause immune deficiency in man and animals.

“Mycotoxins are deadly, and can cause all sorts of poisoning in the body,” the director said.

She said that some research suggested that mycotoxins could also cause kidney damage.

According to her, some people think that rotten tomatoes which are cheap, can be consumed after washing and heating.

She, however, stressed that the toxins could not be washed or killed by heating “because mycotoxins are heat-resistant.”

She, therefore, advised consumers to keep-off rotten tomatoes often sold cheap in the market, saying “it was better to spend money to prolong life than to use such money to buy death.”

http://www.metronaija.ng/keep-off-rotten-tomatoes-to-avoid-cancer-nafdac-warns-nigerians/

Is it not the rotten tomatoes and pepper that all the Iya waliat,Iya basirat and Iyasuliat use in making the nice sauces we use for rice from time;no be today o. We fry our sauces so well that no fungi can survive in it.

Benekruku:


I dislike when people generalize and speak on behalf of 220,000,000 people


If you cant afford it doesn't mean all other people cant


Personalize your travails

...study statistics and u wld understand he is right to speak for all nigerians with that statement!!!!!