09-12-2026, 08:12 PM
"When 42 middle-aged adults ate 35 grams of tomato paste each day for three months, they showed enhanced selective attention and a slight boost in associative memory on cognitive tests.
These improvements were supported by brain scans among a smaller cohort of 14 participants.
These scans revealed tentative changes in connectivity across large-scale brain networks, although the imaging analysis was small and statistically underpowered – and based on a more lenient statistical threshold than the study's own planned correction method.
It's also worth noting that the trial was unblinded – both participants and researchers knew who was eating tomato paste and who wasn't – so the study authors can't fully rule out that knowing which diet they were on affected people's motivation or effort on the cognitive tests.
As with any first trial, it's important not to get carried away by the results, but even though the evidence is preliminary, the findings are juicy.
They suggest that bioactive compounds in tomatoes, such as lycopene, may promote brain health, which is a hypothesis to be tested further in future, larger trials."
Likopen pewnie, nawet kiedyś przeciery kupowałem po to, żeby codziennie jeść właśnie w tym celu.
These improvements were supported by brain scans among a smaller cohort of 14 participants.
These scans revealed tentative changes in connectivity across large-scale brain networks, although the imaging analysis was small and statistically underpowered – and based on a more lenient statistical threshold than the study's own planned correction method.
It's also worth noting that the trial was unblinded – both participants and researchers knew who was eating tomato paste and who wasn't – so the study authors can't fully rule out that knowing which diet they were on affected people's motivation or effort on the cognitive tests.
As with any first trial, it's important not to get carried away by the results, but even though the evidence is preliminary, the findings are juicy.
They suggest that bioactive compounds in tomatoes, such as lycopene, may promote brain health, which is a hypothesis to be tested further in future, larger trials."
Likopen pewnie, nawet kiedyś przeciery kupowałem po to, żeby codziennie jeść właśnie w tym celu.