POUR on the tomato ketchup and pile into the pizzas—it might just save
your life. To add to the growing list of the health benefits of
lycopene—the pigment that makes tomatoes red—comes the news that it
may destroy cancers of the mouth.
A team led by Betty Schwartz, a biochemist at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, was exploring the anticancer properties of a range of substances that
occur naturally in food. Among other things, the researchers were looking at
pro-vitamin-A carotenoids—plant pigments that the body converts into
vitamin A, such as the carotene that makes carrots…
