Dietary sun protection?
30 Apr 2008
Eating tomatoes improves the skin’s ability to protect itself against ultraviolet light, according to research at Manchester and Newcastle universities. They studied the skin of 20 people who had been given standard tomato paste with of olive oil, or only olive oil, and their results, presented to the British Society for Investigative Dermatology in Oxford, indicate that those who had eaten the paste had 33 per cent more protection against sunburn.