Natali Pier Giorgio, Piantelli Mauro, Sottini Alessandra, Eufemi Margherita, Banfi Cristina, Imberti Luisa
Mediterranean Task Force for Cancer Control, Rome, Italy.
Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, Center for Advanced Studies and Technology (CAST), G. D'Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy.
Front Nutr. 2025 Feb 5;12:1519905. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1519905. eCollection 2025.
Nutritional interventions facilitating the consumption of natural, affordable, and environment-compatible health-promoting functional foods are a promising strategy for controlling non-communicable diseases. Given that the complex of tomato micronutrients produces healthier outcomes than lycopene, its major antioxidant component, new strategies to improve the health-supporting properties of the berry are ongoing. In this context, a whole tomato food supplement (WTFS), enriched by 2% olive wastewater containing a complex of healthy nutrients with converging biologic activities, has recently been developed, which is superior to those present in tomato commodities or obtained with whole tomato conventional processing methods. WTFS equals the antioxidant activity of N-acetyl-cysteine and interferes with multiple inflammation and cellular transformation-sustaining metabolic pathways. In interventional studies, WTFS inhibits prostate experimental tumors and improves benign prostate hypertrophy-associated symptoms with no associated side-effects. Although WTFS may be susceptible to further improvements and clinical scrutiny, its composition embodies the features of advanced functional foods to ease adherence to dietary patterns, that is, the Mediterranean diet, aimed at contrasting and mitigating the low-grade inflammation, thus being interceptive or preventive of non-communicable diseases.
促进食用天然、实惠且与环境兼容的健康促进功能食品的营养干预措施,是控制非传染性疾病的一项有前景的策略。鉴于番茄微量营养素复合物比其主要抗氧化成分番茄红素能产生更健康的结果,目前正在探索改善这种浆果健康支持特性的新策略。在此背景下,最近开发了一种全番茄食品补充剂(WTFS),它富含2%的橄榄废水,其中含有具有多种生物活性的健康营养成分复合物,其效果优于番茄商品或全番茄传统加工方法所获得的产品。WTFS的抗氧化活性等同于N-乙酰半胱氨酸,并能干扰多种炎症和维持细胞转化的代谢途径。在干预性研究中,WTFS可抑制前列腺实验性肿瘤,并改善良性前列腺增生相关症状,且无相关副作用。尽管WTFS可能还需要进一步改进和临床检验,但其成分体现了先进功能食品的特点,有助于人们遵循旨在对抗和减轻低度炎症的饮食模式,即地中海饮食模式,从而对非传染性疾病起到拦截或预防作用。