Dr Norman Swan

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1,216 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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What's That Rash? · Eat the rainbow: what can food colour tell us? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

So lycopene and a lot of these compounds are actually powerful antioxidants.

But that's not all that they do, and we don't fully understand all that they do, but lycopene is one of them.

Well, you are getting other antioxidants, but the dominant one that people talk about are carotenoids.

Well yeah, that's right.

It sort of thickens your carotid or something like that.

So some of these are actually metabolites on the way to vitamin A.

So beta-carotene is one of them.

So beta-carotene is a carotenoid.

It's in sweet potatoes, which was mentioned by Laurent, um, pumpkins, carrots, and it's converted into vitamin A, which obviously has benefits for the body.

There's another carotenoid called lutein, which uh helps with eye health.

possibly to prevent cataracts and age related macular degeneration.

So carotenoids are very important phytochemicals in the body.

my mother used to say, I'll help you, I'll help you see at night is what my mo my mother would have said, you know.

I never actually tried it.

Well they eating a carrot when I was cycling my bike at night, you know, it was a pretty dangerous thing to do.

You get a lot out of green vegetables.

You get carotenoids, you get indols and sapinins and green vegetables I don't

Well a lot of people don't fully understand what they mean either, so I get you know that gets me out of jail on that on that question.

But there are particularly cruciferous vegetables.

Look as though they have anti-cancer effects.

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