Raw, squashed, or sauce? 🍅

🐷 How do you like your tomatoes? Raw, stuffed, squashed, in jam, or as sauce? Whatever your taste is, just be sure to share them with your swine production… Ohio State researchers have found that two weeks of eating a diet heavy in tomatoes increased the diversity of microbe species in the guts of pigs, and the concentrations of two types of bacteria common in the mammal microbiome shifted to a more favorable profile. 

    • Awesome, right? And not only for your production – for you too! The researchers plan to study the benefits for people as well, since overall dietary patterns have been analyzed in detail, but food-specific effects haven't. 

🔍 To learn all the details about how the tests were conducted and how the scientists arrived at this result, read this.