TOMATOES AND CANCER

Tomatoes are good for us in so many ways but one important thing about tomatoes is the antioxidant lycopene. Studies have shown that because of lycopene tomatoes may block cancer by, among other things, stopping malignant cells from multiplying and by causing them to destroy themselves. An important note about lycopene is that while tomatoes are healthy in any form, cooked tomato products, ie tomato sauce, make lycopene more easily available to the body. Tomato products are said to be especially helpful against prostate cancer.