Sunday, May 16, 2010

Growers can boost benefits of broccoli and tomatoes

Carotenoid-enriched tomatoes produced more bioactivity in the liver than lycopene-enriched or standard tomatoes, yielding the most cancer-preventive benefits.

In their current research, researchers from College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences | University of Illinois,  are experimenting with ways to increase the bioactive components in these foods in order to test the efficacy of enriched broccoli and tomatoes in a new prostate cancer study....

Growers can boost benefits of broccoli and tomatoes

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