Article about the violet tomatoes, capable to protect from a disease a cancer.
If you don’t presume to yourselves is raspberry and a blackberry every day, and healthy it would be desirable to be, urgently occupy line for violet tomatoes (as soon as them will let in sale)
If you don’t presume to yourselves is raspberry and a blackberry every day, and healthy it would be desirable to be, urgently occupy line for violet tomatoes (as soon as them will let in sale). Certainly, if you have no fear of genetically modified products.
The unusual biotechnological tomatoes which are considerably different on color from traditional, were created by experts from John Innes’s British research center and their colleague from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. Color, however, a side effect, and the main thing – the contents.
For dense color of new tomatoes high concentration antocianina – the same pigment which is, for example, in berries of wild strawberry, strawberries, blackberries, cranberries, raspberry and a cowberry answers. In normal tomatoes antocianina isn’t present.
Azhal, after all this connection is an antioxidant which, according to some researches, helps to struggle with a cancer. Besides, this substance is useful for prevention of diseases of heart and the degenerate diseases connected with age. Antotsianin also possesses anti-inflammatory effect, promotes visual acuity and interferes with obesity and diabetes – the British scientists specify. In raspberry antocianina, for example, about 3,7 milligrams on gram. But we don’t eat some berry every day, and here tomatoes on a table "stay" with people often. Therefore magicians from John Innes’s center used the latest developments of genetic engineering and forced tomatoes to develop this substance (the necessary genes the flower a lion’s pharynx shared). Such attempt, by the way, was undertaken and earlier, but for the first time it crowned a victory: 2,8 mg antocianina on gram (both in a peel, and in fruit pulp).
For check of effectiveness of new tomatoes scientists made experiment on the mice having cancer. One group used the usual food, the second – I go with addition of "classical" red tomatoes, the third – food with an additive of new violet fruits. Animals from the third group it appeared more resistant. It is one of the first examples of metabolic engineering which opens possibilities for health strengthening by diet correction – one of authors of work professor Katie Martin from John Innes’s center speaks. Certainly, before such tomatoes will appear in shops, scientists will need to carry out many additional researches. Let’s tell, not clearly, how many the antioxidant from each eaten fruit can take a human body and whether such appreciable curative effect, as at mice will be reached.
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