Each patient had to fill in a questionnaire about their own lunch patterns, containing a matter how usually they worried pizza, says a report from the International Journal of home Disease.

The amount they ate was not specified but the scientists concluded that regular usage of pizza helped prevent cancer.

Almost all pizzas contain tomato sauce or puree and this is established to allow cancerfightingproperties. The surprise lies in lycopene, the antioxidant in the skin of tomatoes making them red.

It is believed that lycopene may prevent or even reverse the tumor of tumours.

Lycopene is my www present in fresh tomatoes but is much more efficiently absorbed from the amount when the tomatoes have become handled into foods.

The typical daily intake of a British person is less than one milligram, about 25 times less than the amount which was found in studies to protect against disease.

Research shows that visit a high intake of lycopene-rich vegetables is associated with lower costs of many diseases.

The Ancient greek, for example visit, take more than twice as many fresh fruit and organic as Britons and, despite becoming a state of smokers, dying from heart disease are partly those now Great britain.

Other research indicates lycopene helps fight prostate and breasts cancer, heart disease, male infertility plus the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis. A spokesman for Heinz said: 'It occurs as no shock to Heinz, the planets largest processor of tomatoes then the organizer of the Lycopene Project - a global initiative designed to determine with support further investigation to the make of lycopene - to hear of additional study showing medical gains of managed tomatoes.'