Tomatoes naturally lower cholesterol, they do not have any in them! Grow some and get the vitamin D while your doing it. Just an assumption but did you just add the cholesterol for a gimmick? Animal products have cholesterol not fruit or vege.
-- Edited by Kebbin on Monday 30th of May 2022 01:51:42 PM
Buzz Lightbulb said
02:11 PM May 30, 2022
An excerpt from a related article:
'They were made by editing a gene called Sl7-DR2 to stop the plant producing an enzyme that converts provitamin D3, a precursor to vitamin D, into cholesterol. We altered a very small fragment of a part of this gene, says Jie Li at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, who led the research. Comparing with the non-edited tomato plants, we didnt see any effect on growth, development or yield in our edited plant. It just looked like a normal tomato fruit.'
I interpret that to mean that it keeps reduce cholesterol.
A breed of tomatoes have been genetically modified to help produce vitamin D and less cholesterol. Sounds like a win-win situation to me.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-022-01154-6
Tomatoes naturally lower cholesterol, they do not have any in them! Grow some and get the vitamin D while your doing it. Just an assumption but did you just add the cholesterol for a gimmick? Animal products have cholesterol not fruit or vege.
-- Edited by Kebbin on Monday 30th of May 2022 01:51:42 PM
An excerpt from a related article:
'They were made by editing a gene called Sl7-DR2 to stop the plant producing an enzyme that converts provitamin D3, a precursor to vitamin D, into cholesterol. We altered a very small fragment of a part of this gene, says Jie Li at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, who led the research. Comparing with the non-edited tomato plants, we didnt see any effect on growth, development or yield in our edited plant. It just looked like a normal tomato fruit.'
I interpret that to mean that it keeps reduce cholesterol.