STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Scientists using gene-editing technology were able to unlock the vitamin D potential of tomatoes in an innovation that researchers said could help widespread deficiency of the ...

A novel bioengineering technique has succeeded in producing a modified tomato crop that could help to alleviate the worldwide problem of vitamin D deficiency. Research led by the John Innes Centre in ...

With summer right around the corner, people are likely to be spending more time in the sun, which may mean more vitamin D. However, some people still do not get enough vitamin D. Indeed, approximately ...

Fish and dairy products are the best dietary sources of vitamin D, which can make it a struggle for those on a plant-based diet to get enough of the essential micronutrient. Vitamin D helps protect ...

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - If British scientists have their way, two medium-sized tomatoes a day could keep the doctor away. A research team led by scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich have ...

Gene editing has brought beneficial changes to many foods. Now, researchers have engineered a plant that produced tomatoes and leaves that contain vitamin D. Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin ...

The tomatoes of the future could help boost your levels of the sunshine vitamin. Researchers in the UK say they’ve developed genetically edited tomatoes that can produce high levels of vitamin D with ...

Vitamin C enhances iron absorption, and taking vitamin C with some other nutrients may help enhance the effects of each.

With genetic editing, researchers were able to cause provitamin D3 to accumulate in the tomato fruit. The majority of foods contain little vitamin D and even plants are a poor source of this essential ...

Lycopene: ‘The Tomato Vitamin’ Lycopene, an antioxidant that occurs abundantly in plants, is known as a potential mitigating agent for cardiovascular disease and cancer. Lycopene is one of many ...