Monday, October 27, 2008

New Super Purple Tomatoes

Genetically modified tomatoes that are rich in purple antioxidants called anthocyanins cause cancer prone mice to live longer. Tests on mice that lacked the p53 gene, which helps protect against cancer, showed the mice that were fed the purple tomatoes lived 30% longer than those who ate only normal red tomatoes.British researchers from the John Innes Centre, Norwich, England, published their