Abstract:

A new study supports that daily consumption of lycopene rich tomato paste reduce skin reddening after exposure to ultra Violet light.

Objectives:

The tomato paste, giving a daily lycopene dose of 16 milligram, was also found to reduce damage to mitochondrial DNA a measure identifies as a reliable marker of UV ray exposure. This study supports the previous epidemiological, human and animal data reporting protective effect of lycopene and indicates that this is also protective against UVR-induction of matrix metalloprotease enzyme MMP1, which play a main role in degradation of extracellular matrix during premature skin aging. As an antioxidant, lycopene has been shown to have many other benefits like high blood pressure, prostate osteoporosis and skin in both natural and synthetic form and it has been commonly used in food supplements and nutria-cosmetics.

Design:

It was proposed that the dose of UV increase from 26.4mg/cm2 in the start to 36.6mg/cm2 after lycopene supplementation, which shows improved resistance to skin reddening.

Participants:

Twenty healthy women with an age of 33 and skin types photo type I/II participated in the study. The women were randomly assigned to take 55mg tomato paste in olive oil or just olive oil daily for twelve weeks.

Result:

Of the 17 women who completed the study skin samples taken from buttocks before and after 12 weeks of intervention showed that, there is no change in the control group but the dose of UVneeded to cause skin reddening increased.

Conclusion:

It was concluded that tomato past rich in lycopene protects against cutaneous photo damage in human in vivo.

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