{"id":743137,"date":"2026-08-19T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743137\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:58:12","slug":"everyday-vegetable-linked-to-significant-reductions-in-liver-fat-in-six-week-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743137\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday vegetable linked to significant reductions in liver fat in six-week study"},"content":{"rendered":"

A small clinical trial has found that consuming raw tomatoes and tomato sauce each day over six weeks led to a meaningful reduction in liver fat among adults diagnosed with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD).<\/p>\n

The study, which randomised 79 participants, reported that those following a tomato-rich diet experienced a significantly greater decline in hepatic fat compared with a control group that avoided tomatoes entirely.<\/p>\n

Notably, the improvement appeared to occur independently of any shifts in body weight or overall body composition. However, the trial’s modest sample size warrants caution when interpreting the results.<\/p>\n

Participants had a median age of roughly 58, with approximately 70 per cent being male, and all had a BMI below 30. <\/p>\n

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The results occurred independently of shifts in body weight and body composition<\/p>\n

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Forty-two were assigned to eat 200g of raw tomatoes alongside 50g of tomato sauce daily, while 37 followed a diet entirely free of tomatoes.<\/p>\n

Liver fat was assessed using the FibroScan-based controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) both before and after the intervention. <\/p>\n

Both groups saw a fall in CAP scores, but the tomato group recorded a notably larger median decrease of 35.00 dB\/m compared with 18.00 dB\/m in the control arm.<\/p>\n

This difference remained statistically significant even after adjustments for age, sex, and BMI.<\/p>\n

The trial’s authors acknowledged several constraints. It was conducted at a single centre, ran for only six weeks, and involved a relatively small cohort.<\/p>\n

Because all participants had a BMI below 30, the findings may not apply to those with obesity \u2014 the group that constitutes the majority of MASLD cases encountered in clinical practice.<\/p>\n

What’s more, adherence to the dietary protocol was self-reported rather than independently verified.<\/p>\n

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The subjects consumed raw tomato and tomato sauce every day for six months<\/p>\n

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The researchers also did not measure circulating levels of lycopene or other carotenoids, meaning the biological mechanism driving the observed reduction in hepatic fat remains uncertain.<\/p>\n

The authors declared no conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small clinical trial has found that consuming raw tomatoes and tomato sauce each day over six weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}