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Aside from tomatoes or tomato products like ketchup, it is found in watermelons, grapefruits, red guavas, and baked beans. [4] It has no vitamin A activity. [4]In plants, algae, and other photosynthetic organisms, lycopene is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of many carotenoids, including beta-carotene, which is responsible for yellow, orange, or red pigmentation, photosynthesis, and ...
Tomato-based foods contain some of the highest amounts of lycopene. For instance, a ½ cup of tomato puree has over 27,000 micrograms of lycopene, while a cup of canned tomato juice contains ...
Lycopene is a member of the carotenoids family, a group of pigments found in pumpkins, tomatoes, carrots and bell peppers. Carotenoids give orange, red and yellow plant foods their bright coloring ...
In fact, canned tomatoes even deliver greater levels of iron and the antioxidant lycopene than fresh tomatoes do. Plus, they cost a fraction of the price of fresh, especially if you buy them in ...
Lycopene - found in high concentration in cooked red tomato products like canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato juice and garden cocktails, guava and watermelons. Zeaxanthin - best sources are kale, collard greens, spinach, turnip greens, Swiss chard, mustard and beet greens, corn, and broccoli
The tomato is a crucial and ubiquitous part of Middle Eastern cuisine, served fresh in salads (e.g., Arab salad, Israeli salad, Shirazi salad and Turkish salad), grilled with kebabs and other dishes, made into sauces, and so on. [90] Tomatoes were gradually incorporated into Indian curry dishes after Europeans introduced them. [91]
Tomatoes contain an antioxidant called lycopene that can protect arteries from atherosclerosis and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Lycopene has also been associated with healthier ...
In 2000 it was discovered that the gene insertion of a bacterial phytoene desaturase into transgenic tomatoes increased the lycopene content without the need to alter several of the plants enzymes. [5] This approach was later used in rice to increase its β-carotene content resulting in the Golden Rice project.