For people
Lycopene is a carotenoid, isolated as the first obtained from the tomato, so called "lycopene." Lycopene is a carotenoid antioxidant capacity of 3.2 times, 100 times more vitamin E, the body can not manufacture Lycopene is required from the dietary intake, eating a raw tomato, can only absorb 0.05 mg of lycopene; eat Lycopene is equivalent to eating a raw tomato 15.
Prostate disease, cancer patients;
Living in those areas of serious environmental pollution;
 Lowered immunity in the elderly population;
Anti-oxidation, anti-aging are required.

Human drug trials
Harvard Medical School on 47 000 healthy men were six-year study found that a weekly intake of tomato products more than 10 people, lower risk of prostate cancer 45%, while those who were taking only reduced 4-7 21% to 34%. Wiener State University in Detroit, the United States engaged in cancer research library of the late Austrian doctors in Turkey are grams, made with tomato pigment medicinal capsule treatment of prostate cancer, to obtain significant effects. Library has 26 grams of prostate cancer patients awaiting surgery group test, taking him from a group of tomato lycopene extract made from the capsules, twice daily 15 mg; a group not taking the capsules . Three weeks later he was surprised to find that patients taking the tomato capsule, the tumor was significantly reduced, and some almost eliminated. Researchers in 93 patients with lung cancer and 102 patients without tumor controls were studied to detect the blood lycopene, a-carotene, B-carotene and other nutrients concentrations found in the blood of two groups of people concentrations of nutrients similar, only different lycopene, lycopene lung cancer tissues were significantly lower than the control group. Found in smokers, the lowest group of lycopene cancer rate of about 4 times the highest value group. In addition, smoking lung cancer patients the lowest concentration of lycopene in vivo. The researchers believe that smoking will run out of lycopene in the body, or to low concentrations of lycopene does not prevent the carcinogenic effects of smoking, which occurred in lung cancer.