{"id":138,"date":"2009-08-23T00:46:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T00:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/the-best-way-to-eat-tomatoes\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T01:05:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T01:05:58","slug":"the-best-way-to-eat-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/the-best-way-to-eat-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way to Eat Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ArticleHeading\">Eat Fat With Tomatoes to Absorb All the Nutrients<\/div>\n<div class=\"CommonTextStyle\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/imageserver\/public\/2009\/August\/8.22tomato.jpg\" alt=\"fat, fats, nutrients, lycopene, tomato, tomatoes, carotenoids\" \/>Tomatoes are a good source of the antioxidants lycopene and beta-carotene. But if you eat a tomato without adding a little fat, your body is unlikely to absorb all these nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists recruited graduate students to eat bowls of salad greens with tomatoes and various types of salad dressings. The researchers put IV lines into the participants\u2019 veins and drew blood samples before and after they\u2019d eaten the salads in order to get precise measurements of the absorption of nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>When researchers went back and analyzed the blood samples, they realized that people who had eaten fat-free or low-fat dressings didn\u2019t absorb the beneficial carotenoids from the salad. Only when they had eaten the oil-based dressing did they get the nutrients. Extra virgin oil with balsamic vinegar is one of the simplest and delicious dressings.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercola.com\" target=\"_blank\">mercola.com<\/a> for many more great health tips.<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/susannajade.posterous.com\/the-best-way-to-eat-tomatoes\">susannajade\u2019s posterous<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eat Fat With Tomatoes to Absorb All the Nutrients Tomatoes are a good source of the antioxidants lycopene and beta-carotene. But if you eat a tomato without adding a little fat, your body is unlikely to absorb all these nutrients. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/the-best-way-to-eat-tomatoes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,75],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-attitude","tag-health","tag-tomatoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}