Comments on: Why ketchup should be part of your anti aging diet http://www.simplyantiaging.com/1085/tomatoes-lycopene-anti-aging-diet/ Looking younger feeling great.. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.simplyantiaging.com/1085/tomatoes-lycopene-anti-aging-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-33064 admin Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:12:42 +0000 http://www.simplyantiaging.com/?p=1085#comment-33064 Thanks Lari - your clarification helps. It is unusual to find something so good for us in a natural food whose effects are actually intensified by the cooking process. As you say - your body absorbs much more lycopene when the tomato is cooked. Thanks Lari – your clarification helps. It is unusual to find something so good for us in a natural food whose effects are actually intensified by the cooking process. As you say – your body absorbs much more lycopene when the tomato is cooked.

]]> By: Lari http://www.simplyantiaging.com/1085/tomatoes-lycopene-anti-aging-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-32936 Lari Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:38:52 +0000 http://www.simplyantiaging.com/?p=1085#comment-32936 " When it comes to lycopene in tomatoes, cooked tomato sauces - including ketchup, tomato juice, tomato paste - are more effective than raw tomatoes. This may be because cooking breaks the cell walls of the tomato, releasing more of the lycopene. Or it may be that cooking oil allows the lycopene to move more easily into the body." I just think it's beneficial to state clearly that the amount of lycopene absorbed into the body is actually MUCH higher in cooked tomatoes, than in raw. There is a significant difference there! :) Good article though. ” When it comes to lycopene in tomatoes, cooked tomato sauces – including ketchup, tomato juice, tomato paste – are more effective than raw tomatoes. This may be because cooking breaks the cell walls of the tomato, releasing more of the lycopene. Or it may be that cooking oil allows the lycopene to move more easily into the body.”

I just think it’s beneficial to state clearly that the amount of lycopene absorbed into the body is actually MUCH higher in cooked tomatoes, than in raw. There is a significant difference there! :)

Good article though.

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