Tomatoes might cost you dearly in india nowadays but adding one or two in your daily diet could keep your virility up and running, according to researchers. A dietary compound called Lacto Lycopene found in tomatoes has been shown to improve sperm quality and those took this supplement had almost 40 per cent more fast swimming sperm with improvements to sperm size and shape.
"We didn't really expect that at the end of the study, there would be any difference in the sperm from men who took the tablet versus those who took the placebo. When we decoded the results, I nearly fell off my chair," said Allan Pacey, Professor of Andrology Reproduction and Head of the University of Sheffield's Department of Oncology and Metabolism.
Lycopene can be found in some fruits and vegetables, but the main source in the diet is from tomatoes. Lycopene is a pigment that gives tomatoes their red color, but the dietary Lycopene is poorly absorbed by the human body, so the compound used for the trial was a commercially available formulation called Lacto Lycopene; designed by Future You Cambridge to improve bio-availability.
