{"id":446,"date":"2009-05-17T10:21:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:23:57","slug":"lycopene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/lycopene\/","title":{"rendered":"Lycopene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/carotenoids\/\" target=\"_blank\">carotenoid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lpi.oregonstate.edu\/infocenter\/phytochemicals\/carotenoids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found in tomato products, as well as other fruits (pink grapefruit and watermelon) with antioxidant activity<\/a>.\u00a0 Unlike certain other carotenoids, such as beta-carotene, lycopene has no pro-vitamin A activity.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\/treatment\/treatmentsandsideeffects\/complementaryandalternativemedicine\/dietandnutrition\/lycopene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epidemiological studies have linked consumption of lycopene-containing foods to a reduced risk of prostate and other cancers<\/a>, although it&#8217;s difficult to say whether the benefits are solely due to lycopene, or a combination of nutrients, at this point in time.<\/p>\n<p>Lycopene is often\u00a0included in\u00a0supplements, but typically in doses\u00a0less than\u00a0what can be obtained from readily available foods.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iherb.com\/Lycopene?gclid=CNTsrunsw5oCFQwxawodCjfmqA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A typical supplement, for example, contains 10 &#8211; 25 mg <\/a>&#8211; an amount that can easily be obtained by drinking <a href=\"http:\/\/lpi.oregonstate.edu\/infocenter\/phytochemicals\/carotenoids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a glass of tomato juice or vegetable juice cocktail (22 &#8211; 23 mg per 8 oz. serving)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A carotenoid found in tomato products, as well as other fruits (pink grapefruit and watermelon) with antioxidant activity.\u00a0 Unlike certain other carotenoids, such as beta-carotene, lycopene has no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[231,624,807,906,937],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}