Nutrition

Why are Ironside tomatoes good for our health?

Because they:

• Are low in calories, with no saturated fatty acids
• Contain vitamin E - an antioxidant known to reduce
  heart disease
• Are high in vitamin C - a "Special" D tomato provides
  50% of your daily recommended Vitamin C dose
• Are low in salt, starch and sugars
• Are high in folic acid - which helps to reduce heart disease
• Contain flavanoids - they have powerful antioxidant
  properties and are found in tomato skin
• Are high in dietary fibres
• Contain lycopene - a potent antioxidant proven to help
  prevent breast cancer and prostrate cancer
• Not forgetting that they also taste superb whether in a
  salad or cooked with other foods

For these reasons tomatoes are known in medical terms as "the Miracle Fruit"

"The Tomato is a powerful health promoting companion and bodyguard"- Ron Levin (2008) The Red Bodyguard: The Amazing Health Promoting Properties of the Tomato

For more information please see:

• The Humble Superfood in your Salad Telegraph, 11th
  February 2008
• Ron Levin's 2008 book The Red Bodyguard
• The Miracle Fruit Report May 2001, by the BTGA, supporting
  the Cancer Research Campaign

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