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Benefits of Eating Seasonally:

Cheaper

More delicious

More nutritious

More sustainable

Tomato

High in vitamin C, A,, K, E, potassium, calcium

citric, malic, oxalic acid (help accelerate metabolism and filter out fatty deposits from body. (weight management)

High in antioxidants - anti=inflammatory, decrease insulin resistance**

Lycopene, protective against cancer

Carotenoids

Research

Carotenoids

Diabetes mellitus and serum carotenoids: findings of a population-based study in Queensland, Australia.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16155284

Dietary intake of carotenoids and risk of type 2 diabetes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25716098

This study shows that diets high in β-carotene and α-carotene (not necessarily all carotenoids) are associated with reduced type 2 diabetes in generally healthy men and women.

Serum carotenoids are inversely associated with type 2 diabetes and impaired glucose metabolism. ** not a dietary study

Chromium

chromium

essential trace element

important for maintaining normal glucose concentrations’

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). (2010) Scientific Opinion on the substantiation of health claims related to chromium. EFSA Journal 2010;8(10):1732.



Balk EM, Tatsioni A, Lichtenstein AH, Lau J, Pittas AG. (2007) Effect of chromium supplementation on glucose metabolism and lipids: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Diabetes Care 30:2154-2163

European Food Safety Authority approved the health claims that chromium ‘contributes to normal macronutrient metabolism’ and ‘helps maintain normal glucose concentrations’.


(claims can only be made for foods containing a significant amount of chromium - over 6 µg per 100 g of product.)

A scientific review: the role of chromium in insulin resistance.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15208835

Dietary chromium is poorly absorbed. Chromium levels decrease with age. Supplements containing 200-1,000 mcg chromium as chromium picolinate a day have been found to improve blood glucose control.

chromium serves as a cofactor for insulin action

Role of Chromium in Human Health and in Diabetes
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/11/2741

BIOLOGIC ACTIONS OF CHROMIUM
chromium serves as a cofactor for insulin action

Low in glucose

Lycopene

lycopene with its anti-oxidant and multi-targeted anti-carcinogenic properties is of promising use in preventing and combating cancer.

Multitargeted therapy of cancer by lycopene
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615641/