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What
Are the Nutritional Benefits of Tomatoes and Morning Star Tomato
Products?
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| Nutrition: |
| One
medium fresh tomato provides 47% of the recommended daily allowance
(RDA) of vitamin C, and 22% of the RDA of vitamin A. The tomato
ranks #1 among vegetables in nutrient contribution to diet in the
United States. Here are some more numbers (1): |
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- Serving
Size: 1 cup (180)g
- Calories:
35
- Fat: 1
g
- Protein:
2g
- Carbohydrate:
8g
- Sodium:
15 mg
- Cholesterol:
0g
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| Health Benefits |
| Recent sientific
studies(2) suggest that eating cooked tomatoes reduces one's likelihood
of suffering from cholesterol-related heart problems and digestive
tract cancers. Why cooked tomatoes? cooking tomatoes releases lycopene(3),
a strong antioxidant that gives tomatoes their red color. Lycopene
helps release free radicals from the body (free radicals are unstable
oxygen molecules that have been implicated in several types of cancers
and heart disease). Lycopene also may help prevent the oxidation
of low-density lipoproteins, a form of cholesterol carrier in the
blood that is thought to be a cause of heart disease. |
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| Click Here to learn more about Lycopene. |
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