Re: [Pen-l] "natural capital"

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

isn't there a bit too much sugar in most ketchup?

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:30 PM, ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
>
> > I thought they found out that ketchup does have some food value .
> >
> >
>
>  Indeed. Reagan was, inter alia, a freaking nutritional genius ;-). Google
> "lycopene" and "anti-oxidants". The short of it: tomatoes are a good source
> of anti-oxidants due to the lycopene present in them, and anti-oxidants are
> just about the hippest thing when it comes to nutrition these days. Now,
> here's where Reagan is the genius: turns out that the lycopene is better
> absorbed when the tomatoes are served up as a sauce or paste, or in some
> crushed format. So tomatoes are good, and ketchup, by this theory, is
> better!
>
>  Of course, if like me, you agree with Michael Pollan [sp?] that one should
> "eat food" (not ingredients or nutrition or whatever), this argument doesn't
> impress much.
>
>         --ravi
>
>
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