At this rate, scientists will be the best description of the tomato by simple superfood.
Although some time by lowering cholesterol and preventing credited by certain types of cancer, the results will be displayed health giving have two other advantages.
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Protection against sunburn and help keep the skin young people looking for points later, a study has found.
Professor Mark Birch-Machin said tomatoes, a cheap and easy method for improving health could be guaranteed.
The researchers recommend that universities of Manchester and Newcastle, two tomatoes, meals a day for optimal health.
Possible menu includes a glass of tomato juice with breakfast and then a salad or tomato soup for lunch and pasta with tomato sauce for dinner.
To examine the ability of fruit to protect the skin, subjects were asked ten hours, five tablespoons of tomato paste mixed with olive oil daily for three months to eat.
Ten others had a daily dose of olive oil - less tomato paste.
Tests using Ultra Violet lamps showed the tomato eaters were third best protection against sunburn at the end of the study, at first, is one of the British Society for Investigative Dermatology Annual Conference.
Other proposed tests, tomatoes, food was the increased production of collagen, a protein that keeps skin soft.
If this were not enough, the fruit also protects our mitochondria - the parts of cells that feed into energy.
However, the researchers emphasized that their findings are not an excuse to throw a sunscreen. Professor Lesley Rhodes, a dermatologist at the University of Manchester, said: I do not think that tomatoes in any way can replace sun protection, but can be a good addition.
The fruits are credited with the benefits of lycopene, the pigment behind distinctive red skin.
Lycopene, a powerful antioxidant, can capture free radicals - harmful molecules linked to cancer - it is easier to absorb the body when tomatoes are cooked or processed.
