Tomatoes in the News

• Gene discovery could lead to better tomatoesSan Francisco ChronicleThe 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 BenefitsFood Product DesignResearchers 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 Researchall 3 news articles »
• Small Cancer Benefit Seen with Multivitamin UseMedPage TodayCo-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, ...and more »
• Eat Your Heart Out With Healthy Red FoodsTyler Morning TelegraphProcessed 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 ...and more »
• Counsel & Heal Tomatoes May Lower Risk of Stroke and Fight Prostate CancerCounsel & 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 ...and more »
• Dan Morain: Will jobs be lost with cap and trade?Sacramento BeeRANDY 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 ...

Rosted Pepper Tapenade

• 1 (8-ounce) can whole tomatoes, drained
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• Salt and freshly cracked black pepper 
• 3 red bell peppers, roasted and finely diced
• 1 tablespoon capers, rinsed and finely chopped
• 1 pinch chili flakes
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme

Quarter tomatoes lengthwise and arrange on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil just to coat and season very lightly with salt and pepper. Place in convection oven with fan on or dehydrator at 250ºF for 3 hours. Remove from oven and cool to room temperature; then, dice very fine. Turn into mixing bowl with remaining ingredients and combine thoroughly, using a rubber spatula. Set aside to chill for 2 hours.

Makes 2 cups

Serves