Concentrated (5% lycopene) tomato extract is a dark red powder. Food supplement.
Has many benefits. Use in cooking e.g. make your own tomato paste with a difference - it's concentrated lycopene.
Regular tomato paste contains about 125 times less lycopene.
140g tub of tomato paste contains about 56mg lycopene. That's about 3-5 times the amount you 'may' need per day.
140g of lycopene powder contains 7000mg lycopene.
How much do I need and why should I buy this product?
You only need to take a small amount of the lycopene powder and it's very cost effective. Typical use is around 1/2 teaspoon of lycopene powder in a large casserole dish of whatever food you like to eat where you desire a tomato flavour. The flavour of the food is enhanced, the lycopene is very stable under any ambient temperatures and never needs refrigeration as does paste - just use a clean spoon each time.
Each one gram of lycopene powder contains 50mg lycopene - one quarter teaspoon per day should be sufficient for most. But eat it with a little extra virgin olive oil, either neat or in cooking - the oil makes the lycopene more useable by the body.
So remember, it is advantageous to cook the lycopene powder with some oil such as used in pizza or any other tomato dishes. To find out more just use your search engine as there is much information about the benefits of lycopene. You may eat it just from a spoon if you wish.Tip! taste it first to check if eating it this way is to your liking.
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For information see also http://www.lycopene.org/
