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Post Info TOPIC: New tomatoes have increased vitamin D and less cholesterol


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New tomatoes have increased vitamin D and less cholesterol


A breed of tomatoes have been genetically modified to help produce vitamin D and less cholesterol. Sounds like a win-win situation to me. 

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-022-01154-6



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Tomatoes naturally lower cholesterol, they do not have any in them! Grow some and get the vitamin D while your doing it. Just  an assumption but did you just add the cholesterol for a gimmick? Animal products have cholesterol not fruit or vege.



-- Edited by Kebbin on Monday 30th of May 2022 01:51:42 PM

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An excerpt from a related article:

 

'They were made by editing a gene called Sl7-DR2 to stop the plant producing an enzyme that converts provitamin D3, a precursor to vitamin D, into cholesterol. We altered a very small fragment of a part of this gene, says Jie Li at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, who led the research. Comparing with the non-edited tomato plants, we didnt see any effect on growth, development or yield in our edited plant. It just looked like a normal tomato fruit.'

 

 

I interpret that to mean that it keeps reduce cholesterol.

 



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