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General Category => The Knowledge => Health & Fitness => Topic started by: Maladict on 28 April, 2008, 06:52:53 pm

Title: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: Maladict on 28 April, 2008, 06:52:53 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7370759.stm

IIRC lycopene has also been shown to be good for the heart.

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: Adam on 28 April, 2008, 08:43:23 pm

How bizarre - eating tomatoes helps you stop looking like a sun dried tomato.  ;D

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: Greenbank on 29 April, 2008, 03:26:14 pm

People who don't end their sentences with prepositions live for longer. Eat up your pasta sauces, don't eat your pasta sauces up. :)

I love the way that despite the studying looking specifically at tomato paste has a dodgy "recommendation" that eating more pizza may help.

"I wanted my skin to be like SPF 20 so I started eating 5 pizzas a day. All that happened is I developed horrendous acne and I'm now morbidly obese."

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: nuttycyclist on 30 April, 2008, 12:08:33 am

Pizza?   It's only a foreign name for cheese on toast, why get excited ???

<Wanders down to fridge to neck a tube of Tomato Puree>

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: spesh on 30 April, 2008, 12:31:01 am

Quote from: nuttycyclist on 30 April, 2008, 12:08:33 am

Pizza?   It's only a foreign name for cheese on toast, why get excited ???

Nah, that's Croque Monsieur...  :demon:

A healthier way of getting all that lycopene goodness would be lashings of ratatouille, or just a simple tomato-based sauce with some wholemeal pasta.

Nom nom nom...  :P

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: nuttycyclist on 30 April, 2008, 12:50:49 am

You don't fool me Mr Spesh sir, I have been to France.    A Crock Monsewer has ham in it, a Pizza doesn't.

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: spesh on 30 April, 2008, 01:26:11 am

Care to explain the ham and mushroom pizza I had the other day, then?   ;)

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: nuttycyclist on 30 April, 2008, 01:34:57 am

Brussels.

There's bound to be an EU reg somewhere.

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: Rapples on 30 April, 2008, 06:30:40 am

Quote from: spesh on 30 April, 2008, 12:31:01 am

A healthier way of getting all that lycopene goodness would be lashings of ratatouille, or just a simple tomato-based sauce with some wholemeal pasta.

Nom nom nom...  :P

 :thumbsup:

Also, I think most of "those" sauces contain lots of Maltodextrin (modified maize starch), worse for you than sugar I'm led to believe. :o

The Loyd Grossman ones seem to be free of it (Pasta sauces only) :'(

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: Rapples on 30 April, 2008, 09:11:14 am

I don't think it's the maltodextrin itself that's bad.  It's just it's hidden "sugars" in food.  For an energy drink it's fine, I think it has a higher GI than sugar so great for instant energy ;D

I'd think it's used to cheaply thicken sauces, I'd rather not have it with my pasta.  When I mke my own tomato sauces I never add any sugar, don't see the need :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: onb on 30 April, 2008, 09:35:26 am

Tomatoes are also good for keeping prostate problems at bay.

Title: Re: Eat those pasta sauces up.
Post by: rafletcher on 30 April, 2008, 09:55:12 am

Quote from: Rapples on 30 April, 2008, 09:11:14 am

When I mke my own tomato sauces I never add any sugar, don't see the need

Well sometimes a little sugar helps - generally because the tomatoes we get in the UK lack the natural sweetness of those grown in sunnier climes, and tend to be quite acid. Generally though I don't add sugar either.