Tomato Compound Combats Vascular Diseases
Tomatoes are rich in 9-oxo-octadecadienoic acid, a compound that Japanese researchers find exert anti-dyslipidemic effects. Tomato is one of the most common crops worldwide, and numerous previous studies document that the fruit contains many beneficial compounds that improve abnormalities of lipid metabolism. Teruo Kawada, from Kyoto University (Japan), and colleagues explored the role of tomato …