Tomato paste

Tomato paste made from dried tomato powder may not strike you as the most delicious way to prepare this nutritious food, but new research suggests that this is the form in which tomatoes have most prostate cancer-prevention potential.

A positive anti-prostate cancer effect for tomato products has been suggested in many studies. This effect has often been attributed to lycopene. But it’s starting to look as though lycopene is only part of the story.

New cancer research from the University of Missouri, published in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, suggests that dehydrating tomatoes and rehydrating the powder is key.