Tomato Soup May Boost Male Fertility

By Michelle Fabio

A recent study at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom suggests that male fertility may be enhanced by a bowl of tomato soup a day—this because of the increased levels of lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that gives tomatoes its red color, in the subjects’ semen.

Researchers had six healthy male volunteers with an average age of 42 eat a can of Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup every day for two weeks. The results, published in the British Journal of Urology, found that lycopene levels in semen increased by between seven and 12 percent in the men.
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