At the news conference, Heber discussed new medical understanding of lycopenes , the cancer-fighting compounds found in tomatoes and carrots. Processing of these foods into sauces actually increases the amounts found in foods, said the physician. Because the food industry has started to add phytochemicals to foods, the medical community should reach out to the agricultural producers, he added, to ensure those enriched products receive healthy doses of genuinely healthy supplements in the future. Among the food touted in AICR literature were beans and raspberries and cruciferous vegetables like broccoli. Sessions held Thursday at the meeting focused on the cancer fighting properties of tea, soybeans, garlic, grapes, and the trace mineral selenium.
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