Eat The List: The Tomato

Posted on January 28, 2010 
Filed Under Eat The List, High School Reunion Diet Blog

The Lovely Tomato

Think of the tomato as a large, red, good-looking multi-vitamin, and try to remember it wouldn’t hurt to take one each and every day.  Tomatoes deliver an alphabet city of important nutrients—Vitamins A, C, E, K, Bs, E for starters.  The cooked tomato has an added bonus; even a little cooking in olive oil releases the highly- touted anti-oxidant lycopene, which has proven in studies to have tremendous impact on fighting certain cancers, including prostate.  Last but not least—you’d be hard put to find someone who doesn’t like tomatoes; they make almost any dish more festive and flavorful.  Eat them year round, one way or another.  See The Recipes section for a way to enjoy them in winter.

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