Tomatoes in the News


Gene discovery could lead to better tomatoes
San Francisco Chronicle
The discovery, made by an international research team headed by UC Davis, could have broad benefits to California's tomato industry - a $1.3 billion business. By looking at a collection of mutant and wild tomatoes at UC Davis collected in the 1950s by ...


Tomatoes Ripe With Powerful Health Benefits
Food Product Design
Researchers from the National Center for Food Safety & Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology and ConAgra Foods Inc. examined current research to discover the role tomato products play in health and disease risk reduction. ...
Tomatoes Pack A Nutritious Punch, Study FindsBETTER Health Research

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Small Cancer Benefit Seen with Multivitamin Use
MedPage Today
Co-authors disclosed relationships with the Tomato Products Wellness Council, Cambridge Theranostics, DSM Nutritional Products, BASF, Cognis, Pronova BioPharma, Pharmavite, Aurora Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Merck, ...

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Eat Your Heart Out With Healthy Red Foods
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Processed tomatoes — sauce and paste — are more effective than raw tomatoes at reducing cancer risk. In the raw tomato, the lycopene is bound into the cell walls and fiber. Processing breaks down these cell walls and frees the lycopene to be absorbed ...

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Counsel & Heal

Tomatoes May Lower Risk of Stroke and Fight Prostate Cancer
Counsel & Heal
(Photo : Flickr/PurpleFoodie) Experts say in the journal Neurology that cooked and/or processed tomatoes with cooking oil have the highest and most active levels of lycopene. Which makes sun-dried tomatoes the tastiest way to combat a stroke. According ...

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Dan Morain: Will jobs be lost with cap and trade?
Sacramento Bee
RANDY PENCH / rpench@sacbee.com. Energy is needed to produce the steam that sanitizes gallon containers soon to be filled with processed tomatoes. Cap and trade costs at the plant remain to be determined. 7FO19FLUME.JPG ...