Tomato’s anti-cancer power
Posted by Yardie Luke on April 29, 2010 under Health | 
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There was a very interesting article in the Gleaner yesterday that’s worth displaying. Here are excerpts and the link to the article:
The tomato, for example, is a fruit so commonly used in Jamaica that its healing power is taken for granted. (And yes, it’s a fruit, not a vegetable, because it contains the ovary of the plants and its seeds). Lycopene is the nutrient most studied in the tomato.
It is a carotenoid (similar to the pigment found in carrots) which has potent anti-cancer activity. It has been found to reduce prostate cancer risk.
In fact, a landmark study (by Erdman and Canene-Adams) published in the journal Cancer Research found that when tomatoes are combined with broccoli as part of a daily diet, the prostate tumour-fighting effect is more pronounced. The researchers believe that bioactive compounds in each food work on different anti-cancer pathways but have an additive effect. SOURCE
