subject: The Importance of Tomato to Protect Your Heart [print this page] The Importance of Tomato to Protect Your Heart
Tomato is a kind of fruits that is always interesting to serve. It is not only delicious, but also healthy. That is why, recently, a scientist from Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, launches a supplement that contains tomato extract. In fact, this supplement is called by medical world as a medicine for heart disease.
This supplement is a pill, known as Ateronon. This pill contains lycopene that is able to reduce the damage that is caused by bad cholesterol. This effect can protect artery vessel, heart and brain from the risk for getting heart disease and stroke.
If you have decided to purchase this supplement, you can find it online. The followings are other benefits of tomato and how to add lycopene consumption into your diet.
Anyway, lycopen is a red pigment that colors tomato. This substance is a kind of strong antioxidants that functions to prevent the natural damage of body cells. As antioxidant, lycopene can help prevent the damage of artery, cells, and DNA. In this case, this substance is 100 times stronger than vitamin E. This antioxidant offers resistance to infection that can cause aging and degenerative diseases, like arthritis and heart disease.
Different from other nutrients, lycopene is more effective and easier to absorb if you cook or heat it. It means that tomato in process is 4 times stronger than uncooked tomato. Tomato sauce or tomato porridge leans to more solid with higher lycopene concentration.
Based on a study that is published by British Journal of Nutrition, diet that is rich in tomato, a spoon of ketchup, and 100 milliliters of tomato juice per day can reduce the cholesterol level up to 5.9%.
To get the sufficient consumption of tomato, you can do high tomato diet. This diet includes 7-10 doses per week. A dose is similar to 3 medium tomatoes. This tomato can include the topping of pizza, uncooked tomato or tomato pasta.
The lycopene dose depends on a kind of tomatoes that you eat and the concentration of tomato color. The more concentrated its color, the more you can find lycopene inside it. The pigment dose will also increase if the tomato is riper.
This substance is dissolvable in fat, so if you want to eat uncooked tomato, make sure to add dressing whose basic material is oil. This dressing can help to make its absorption easier.
