Lycopene is a pigment found in plants, it is a powerful antioxidant that not only protects plants from sunlight and air pollution, but even more amazingly, it is equally powerful in the human body and skin in terms of protection and anti-aging effects.
Lycopene is known as the strongest antioxidant in nature, and its antioxidant effect is 2 times that of carotene and 100 times that of VE. Lycopene is more powerful than beta-carotene in scavenging free radicals, the "source of all diseases" in the human body.
Lycopene has anti-radiation, beauty care role, can inhibit and remove free radicals, to prevent external radiation such as ultraviolet damage to the skin outside; at the same time can promote cell growth and regeneration, beauty and wrinkles, delay aging, to maintain healthy skin.
What's more, it also has the role of enhancing immunity, can protect women's breasts, ovaries and uterus, and greatly reduce the incidence of urban women's breast hyperplasia, cervical diseases.
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Foods rich in lycopene
1, tomatoes
Tomatoes are rich in a variety of vitamins and inorganic substances known as the "fruit of the sky". Tomato lycopene content is very high, every 100 grams of tomatoes in the highest can contain about 20 grams of lycopene.
Tomatoes not only contain lycopene to remove free radicals, but also contain many kinds of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, high quality food fiber and pectin and other high-value nutrients, so it is one of the best women's health food, can play a better anti-aging effect.
2, guava
Each 100 grams of guava contains about 5.23 ~ 5.50 mg of lycopene, guava contains lycopene concentration than any other plant food (including tomatoes and watermelon) higher. Guava contains a large number of human body needs a variety of nutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, these nutrients can effectively promote the body's toxin discharge, so as to achieve the effect of beauty.
In addition to a large number of proteins, vitamins a, b, c, as well as trace elements of calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, etc., these are the human body's health extremely necessary nutrients, regular consumption can effectively promote human health, and also has the role of preventing disease.
3, papaya
Each 100 grams of papaya contains about 0.11 to 5.3 mg of lycopene, is also a good source of lycopene you get. Papaya contains 48 times more vitamin C than apples.
Together with the digestive power of papaya enzymes, it can flush out toxins from your body as soon as possible, refreshing your skin from the inside out. The papaya enzymes contained in papaya promote skin metabolism and help dissolve sebum and aged keratin accumulated in the pores, making the skin appear brighter and fresher.
The Chinese medicine believes that papaya is warm, not cold and not dry, and the nutrients in it are easily absorbed by the skin directly, especially the function of moisturizing the lungs. When the lungs are properly moisturized, it will be able to better move the blood, so that the body is more likely to absorb sufficient nutrients, thus allowing the skin to become smooth, soft, delicate, wrinkles reduce, rosy cheeks.
4, watermelon
Per 100 grams of watermelon in the lycopene content of 2.3 to 7.2 mg per 100 grams of tomato content of 0.2 to 20 mg. Because of the different varieties will lead to the two lycopene content for a range, but careful people will find that the lowest watermelon content is more than ten times that of tomatoes, that is to say, may be most of the watermelon lycopene content is higher than that of tomatoes.
The lycopene content of different varieties of watermelon varies significantly, with red-fleshed varieties of watermelon close to the lycopene content of tomatoes; but yellow-fleshed varieties of watermelon contain almost no lycopene. Therefore, when choosing watermelon to supplement lycopene, you should choose red-flesh varieties of watermelon with higher lycopene content.
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