Dry Tomatoes Prevent Prostate Cancer Best

Valeri V. Mossine of the University of Missouri said the power of tomatoes to protect against prostate cancer has been suggested in many studies, but researchers aren’t sure how it works

Mossine and colleagues demonstrated that FruHis, an organic carbohydrate present in dehydrated tomato products, exerts a strong protective effect.

The study, published in the June issue of Cancer Research, found animals fed the tomato paste plus FruHis diet had the longest survival from cancer at 51 weeks compared with 50 weeks in the tomato powder group, 45 weeks in the tomato paste alone group and 40 weeks in the control group.