Talk:Lycopene
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[edit] Sources of lycopene
The current "sources" section is redundant with the references section. Instead, there should be a sources section that gives a listing of fruits and vegetables that provide significant amounts of lycopene, and the concentrations in each. And someone please, please trim down this article. --LostLeviathan 00:42, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dietary and healt promblems from lycopene
Does anyone know any health promblems caused by lycopene? My father says that he cannot sleep properly if he eats any food containing lycopene. There are some other people who conform my father's observation.--Hannu 08:44, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Americentrism
article states "Almost all lycopene in the American diet comes from tomato-containing foods."
so what? I'm not American, and I want to think Wikipedia is serving my needs for information. Perhaps put it under some section or separate article on American / international comparison of dietary habits. but take it out of here I think.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.186.9.4 (talk • contribs)
- You're right, I have removed the sentence. --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:46, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Plastic pitted by tomato acid?
The article suggests that plastics can be pitted by tomato acid. Not likely! --Slashme 08:26, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Orange tomatoes are more bio available lycopene than red!
this should be included somewhere: see this news article
[edit] Section order
First, wouldn't it make more sense to describe the "Nutritional benefits" of lycopene before listing its "Dietary sources"? Coming into this article knowing nothing I read the dietary sources thinking, "that's nice, but why should I care where I can get it?" Secondly, the only fact in the "Production" section is that it's also found in a specific fungus...Is there any reason why that cannot also be within the "Dietary sources" section? If there are no objections, I will edit the article as such. -Verdatum (talk) 07:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
