Rosy Fruits The Best Lycopene Source

The word lycopene is probably quite familiar enough in our ears. I my self often find this word in commercial break for some beauty and health products, like how lycopene can help us out to have a brighter complexion and how lycopene support the detoxification process in human body.

But what is lycopene anyway, how can lycopene do all those things and where can we find lycopene ? well, I found the answers in some articles I read, and already make some short summary of it. Lycopene is a red pigment, and this red pigment is abundantly found in rosy fruits. Some examples of those rosy fruits are tomatoes, watermelon, red guava, papaya and red bell paper.

A research by Havard Medical School has found that consuming lycopene will lowering the risk of cancer and heart attack. Lycopene contributes a stronger antioxidant compared to vitamin C (Rui Hai Liu, Professor of Food Science, Cornell University).

A study which was revealed in 2002 also mentioned that the lycopene in tomatoes will have an increasing level by cooking. Read more

Tomatoes High Vitamin High Lycopene

Tomatoes has been worldwide known with the high vitamin A and C it has. Vitamin A and C is very good for body’s immunity. Not only that, tomato also contains 56.6 lycopene. Lycopene is an antioxidant, will destroy free radical in human body, as the result of pollution, smoke, and UV rays.

Another serum called Tomatin also functions as anti inflammation, that will heal wound and pimples. The high fiber this fruit has, contribute in digest. Yellow gel which wraps tomato seeds will prevent blood dense and clotting, whereas Clotted blood may cause heart attack and stroke.

300 g of tomatoes which is combined with 20 g of sugar, will result in 117,6 calories ; 3,9 grams protein ; 1,6 grams fat ; and 25,5 gram carbohydrate. It will be better to consume tomatoes juice directly. No need to sieve, it will keep the fiber in it.

The Benefits of Honey

Honey is known worldwide with it’s sweet taste and thick liquid, with yellow to brown color. As has been written in Holly Qur’an, honey is the medication for all illness, except for death. What are the benefits of honey for human’s health ?

Here are the five main concept of benefits of honey for our health :

• Honey as antioxidant source
• Honey as antibacterial matter
• Honey as energy source
• Honey to improve and increase immunity
• Honey contains a lot kinds of nutrients like amino acid, vitamins, and mineral that is sufficient for our body.

Honey and it’s substances :

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