Lilac tomatoes will save from cancer

The scientists of Oregon university derived the new type of the tomatoes, which possess lilac rind and contain a number of the useful substances, unusual for the usual tomatoes. The pigment, which is contained in the lilac tomatoes, contributes to reduction in the risk of the disease by cancer and the disturbance of the activity of heart.

Six years are shrewd to the removal of the new cultivated type. After only two years new tomatoes can fall on table to users. However, researchers report that at the basis of their experiments lie not the chemical and genetic mutations, but the real tomatoes, which grow in South America.

Several hundred years ago researchers revealed in the jungle of South America the tomatoes of lilac color, but that form tomato did not fall on tables, since fruits were very small and places even poisonous.

Already in THE XXI century a discovery the new properties of lilac tomatoes made the student of Oregon university Karl Jones. He established that the lilac wild tomatoes, in contrast to the red fellows, contain anthocyan, chemical connections, which impart to fruits lilac color and possessing the properties of antioxidants.

The professor of Oregon university, who leads by project, stated that his lilac tomatoes thus far badly are sold. It asserts that a study is not set as a goal to change peace; however, gives the possibility to make this to farmers and salesmen of vegetables.

At the same time, although the local residents already can purchase lilac tomatoes, farmers and salesmen nevertheless do not hurry to be connected with the new form of tomatoes.

Buyers are frightened, when such vegetables on the counters see, professor reported. Also thus far stands problem with the taste of fruits, which is differed from standard. But scientists work on by it and hope after several years to bring the organoleptic properties of lilac tomatoes into correspondence with the needs of users.