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Some people don't like to eat tomato. Usually, they always separate tomato from foods. Whereas, tomato not only contains vitamin C, but also helps fight against free radical on our body. According to several experts, tomato also effective to against premature aging.

Several England researchers have found that added cooked tomato on our food every day can increase skin ability to protect itself against dangerous ultra violet light.

Researchers at University of Manchester and University of Newscastle found that added five tablespoons of tomato paste on daily foods on ten volunteers can help prevent skin damage by providing protection to ultra violet effect. The damage that was cause were premature aging and skin cancer.

On a study, the researchers gave 10 volunteers as much as 55 gram standard tomato paste that contained cooked tomato and 10 gram olive oil every day, while other 10 contestants were only given olive oil.

After three months, skin sample from group that was given tomato showed that they had 33 percent of additional protection from burnt by sunlight, as equal as with SPF cream, but with higher procollagen level. Procollagen on molecules give skin its structure and keep it elastic.

The study showed that antioxidant lycopene, which was found on cooked tomato. But, they added that tomato should be looked as useful additional food and not as replacement for sun protection cream.

The researchers also said that the study was smaller and short, and they considered to do new research about benefits of lycopene for skin.

Besides that, according to research that was done by Rowett Research Institute in Scotland, was found that yellow slippery fluid or yellow jelly that are found around tomato seeds contain compound that was effective to against stroke and heart disease. If you drink tomato juice without remove its seeds, so you have reduced risk of blood clotting as much as 72 percent and it will prevent you from suffer heart attack.