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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Lycopene and other anti-oxidants
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:19:35 -0800

Hmmmm, now that took me on an interesting connect the dots. Raw tomatoes (1/2 cup) has 8.3 mg. I would think your pickled would fall in the same range as a veggie juice cocktail (same amount of heat being applied) where a 1/2 cup serving has 11.7 mg. Now, the interesting thing is that, I would have thought, tomato puree (1/2 cup) would have the same amount or more lycopene than tomato sauce (1/2 cup) since puree is more concentrated than sauce. Not the case, 20.8 to 21.9 with tomato sauce the winner.

So, more research shows that it is effected by the lipids and B-carotene plus the processing (cooking) and amount of heat applied. Sooooo, get out your chemistry set <g>

All in all, that would explain why they say spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce (homemade the old Noni Italian way) are the best sources of lycopene.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


As I snacked tonight on some pickled tomatoes, I wondered how the
pickling process affects lycopene, if at all, so I did a search and in
the process, found this site
http://www.drgreger.org/december2003.html
Now, granted the guy is a vegetarian (I think) and has an agenda (to
promote his DVD), but man, I thought I was doing a good thing by eating
all that fish! I love fish! (salmon, tuna, sardines, smoked anything!!_
I subscribe to the notion that the body craves what it needs, and I
crave fish (and pickled tomatoes, and other things most people won't
touch, like raw asparagus.) :)
Anyway, just in case anyone else is wondering about the lycopene thing,
heat makes lycopene more bio-ready and while pickled tomatoes are not
cooked, they are subjected to heat in the canning process, so I am
guessing that pickled tomatoes have more lycopene than raw tomatoes, but
less than cooked tomatoes. If anyone knows for sure whether or not this
is true, I'm all ears.
There's a blurb in there about Mad Cow, too, one that I had not heard,
even though this article is 3+ years old.





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