Lycopene is a natural carotenoid, mainly extracted from tomatoes. From the current research information, lycopene itself has no side effects and is suitable for long-term use.

But health food and dietary supplements that supplement lycopene, some lycopene is naturally extracted and some is synthetic. The naturally extracted lycopene is affected by the extraction technology and equipment preparation, certain technology will have other substances residue; synthetic lycopene is due to biochemical reactions, there may also be other derived substances. Therefore, when shopping for lycopene health products and dietary supplements, it is necessary to carefully identify the source of its raw materials is natural and non-polluting, and whether the extraction technology is advanced and residue-free.

2. How much lycopene should I eat every day?

An average healthy person, 5 mg of lycopene per day to meet the basic needs of the human body, and the daily diet of tomatoes, watermelon, carrots and other foods contain lycopene, it is recommended to eat 1-2 tomatoes on the basis of maintaining a daily diet can be, without additional supplementation.

If you need to achieve antioxidant, delay aging, beauty wrinkles, anti-radiation, maintenance of the skin, anti-cancer, anti-cancer, improve immunity, prevention and treatment of prostatitis, improve the quality of sperm, regulate blood lipids, prevention of cardiovascular and cerebral vascular disease, one of these purposes, it is recommended that the daily supplementation of 20-30 milligrams of lycopene. Due to the low lycopene content in ordinary food (100g of tomatoes contain an average of only 2-3mg, only 0.05mg absorbed by the body to supplement 20-30mg, need to eat dozens of kilograms of tomatoes), can only be taken to lycopene health food and dietary supplements to supplement. Product labels are labeled with the lycopene content of each grain, generally controlled at the level of 20-30 mg per day supplement.

3, lycopene will not have to supplement the problem of overdose? How much is too much? What are the consequences of overdose?

There is no research data and report on lycopene overdose, but there is a degree of everything. It is recommended that the average person should take 5 milligrams of lycopene per day as a supplement; 20-30 milligrams per day is preferred for other groups and can be taken over a long period of time.

4, lycopene every day when to eat better, is it taken before meals or after meals?

Since many health foods, especially some ingredients of drugs, may stimulate the stomach lining when taken on an empty stomach before meals, it is required to be taken after meals; and some ingredients, such as melatonin, are used to improve sleep, so they are taken before bedtime.

And lycopene as a carotenoid, no stimulation of the stomach lining; but lycopene is a fat-soluble pigment, insoluble in water, from the point of view of the effect of the absorption, take after meals than before meals to be beneficial to the human body absorption.