This red flag signals good news! While this mouth-watering fruit is known to benefit the skin, a new study suggests that tomatoes can cut the risk of skin cancer by as much as half. Scientists have found that the active ingredient is the pigmenting compound or dietary carotenoids in tomatoes, which give the fruit its signature red colour. This is the conclusion of a recent study performed at Ohio State University in the US, where male mice were fed a diet consisting of 10-per-cent tomato powder every day and exposed to ultraviolet rays. After 35 weeks, the mice showed a 50-per-cent reduction in cancerous growths. The findings were published in journal Scientific Reports.

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Featured in Harmony — Celebrate Age Magazine
October 2017