I've just been reading about a new book that claims tomatoes are the latest superfood. Apparently they not only contain vitamins, but are also high in antioxidants, particularly one known as lycopene. It's the lycopene that gives tomatoes their bright red colour.
The book, The Red Bodyguard by Ron Levin, makes the case for tomatoes helping with all kinds of ailments thanks to the lycopene. It is claimed that they can help men with low sperm counts, and that when a test group were given supplements of lycopene there was a marked improvement in their fertility.
You can read more about the claims in this article in The Telegraph , and you may feel they're just another of the endless claims that if you eat more of this or less of that, it will improve your fertility. However, you're not going to do any harm by increasing your tomato intake, and it may help you ensure you hit your five fruit and veg a day target if nothing else.
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