LED light helps double vitamin C in tomatoes
date:May 09, 2013
s of light. They used special LED modules that were suspended between the plants around the tomato clusters. The tomatoes normally hang in the shade as they grow beneath the leaves, a little below the top of the plant. The LEDs therefore exposed the tomatoes to a little extra sunlight.

In the tomato variety that showed the strongest reaction, the tomatoes receiving extra light from the LEDs contained up to twice as much vitamin C as the tomatoes not exposed to the LEDs. The doubling of the vita
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