Tomato Paste May Rewire Brain Networks, Early Small Trial Finds

A small randomized crossover trial in healthy middle-aged adults found that eating 35 grams of tomato paste daily for three months improved selective attention and modestly boosted associative memory; brain scans in a subset showed tentative changes in connectivity across large-scale brain networks, suggesting possible neural reorganization, though results are preliminary due to small sample size and unblinded design.