Karina Jones is a real-life ranch wife in the Nebraska Sandhills and one of the most highly sought-after speakers in the cattle industry nationwide!
It’s a summertime gift from the heavens and now the Center for Disease Control and Prevention crowns it the healthiest fruit on earth! Thanks for tuning into Fun, Fact Friday right here on Ranch Raised!
The king of the home garden, the humble tomato, has just been declared the healthiest fruit by the CDC. So, let’s go back to a little plant biology 101, yes the tomato is fruit because it has seeds. And to be honest the CDC has healthier vegetables placed above the tomato like broccoli and kale, but who eats those anyway.
So today is about the beautiful, juicy tomato, which is fitting seeing that I have bushels of them staring me down in my kitchen right now.
Eating tomatoes and tomato-based products can help protect your body from cancer and heart disease. A 2021 umbrella study in the journal Food Chemistry found tomato and lycopene consumption helps prevent coronary artery disease, gastric cancer, prostate cancer, and cerebrovascular disease, which affect blood flow to your brain like strokes or brain aneurysms.
Tomatoes are also rich in vitamins A and C, which combat inflammation in the body. Vitamin C is also important for forming blood vessels, muscles, and parts of our bones. Vitamin A is needed for eye health and growth and development.
I always knew that salsa is life! I should have tshirts made with that saying! Okay, have a great weekend!
Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 4 children near Broken Bow, NE. She grew up in western NE, with roots also in southwest SD. The cattle industry and raising kids is her passion.
Watching the cattle industry go the path that it has gone, she could no longer sit quietly at home checking cows, fixing fence, and doing all the everyday tasks wondering when some else was going to make it all better. As she became more active and outspoken on industry issues, she was asked to join the R-CALF USA staff in September 2020 as the Checkoff Petition Campaign manager. That position transcended into her current role as full time Field Director for R-CALF USA.
You can hear her almost every Friday on Your Ag Network’s Hot Barn Report, where she deep dives into cattle industry issues and industry reforms. Listen to Ranch Raised on a Your Ag Network hometown station or www.youragnetwork.com where she talks about her daily life on the Jones Ranch.
Cattle producers are her people. She will meet you at the county fair, at the sale barn, or anywhere the dusty trail leads.
karina@youragnetwork.com or visit facebook.com/ranchraisedwithkarinajones
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