Oxnard, CA
Deardorff Family Farms is promoting the recent study of the health benefits of its Tasti-Lee brand of tomatoes.
The study shows Tasti-Lee tomatoes contain much higher levels of lycopene than traditional varieties due to both breeding and the way the company grows the tomatoes – outdoors in healthy soil with fresh air and clean water until they are vine-ripened by natural sunshine.
“This study confirms both prior research and conventional wisdom. If you grow a true tomato, outdoors as Mother Nature intended, you are going to get a product with significant health benefits,” says Tom Deardorff, II.
Though the Mayo Clinic and other studies do not specify how beneficial lycopene may be from other vitamins in tomatoes, the studies do show that high intake of lycopene has been identified as an antioxidant has been linked to reduce cancer and heart disease.
The abstract of the study can be found here.
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Deardorff Family Farms
Since 1937, Deardorff-Jackson has been providing customers with the freshest, best-tasting fruits and vegetables…
