Re: Tomato goodies and baddies and types of tomatoes

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Al: In reading this I got the opposite impression - that the tomatine etc

sounded like it was quite beneficial in lowering cholesteral and

triglycerides and enhancing the immune system . So which is it? We eat a

lot of tomato based food at our house. BTW tomatoes are better eaten cooked

with a bit of fat, such as olive oil (tomato sauce for example) to get the

most aborption of lycopene (the prostate cancer preventative).

on 10/10/2002 7:39 AM, Alan Pater at apater@... wrote:

> Hi All, I got the impression from two papers that tomatoes are potential

> sources of glycoalkaloids, as are also found in potatoes especially when

> green, and types of tomatoes makes a big difference. .....

Food and biomedical scientists, including nutritionists and microbiologists,

are challenged to further define beneficial effects of -tomatine and

dehydrotomatine and hydrolysis products in the human diet in lowering

cholesterol and triglycerides, in enhancing the immune system, in cancer

chemotherapy, and in protecting against virulent fungi, bacteria, viruses,

and protozoa………