THE FUNNY THING ABOUT CHINESE FOOD IS THAT IT SEEMS TO TASTE DIFFE...

25. The funny thing about Chinese food is that it seems to taste different in every country you eat them and yetA B C Dnothing like the Chinese food you eat in China.Read the passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks.You may have heard that tomatoes and processed tomato product like tomato sauce and canned tomatoes protect(26)______ some types of cancer. The cancer-preventing properties of tomato products have been (27)______ tolycopene. It is a bright red pigment found in tomatoes and other red fruits and is the cause of their red color. Unlikeother fruits and vegetables, where nutritional content such as vitamin C is diminished upon cooking, processing oftomatoes increases the concentration of lycopene. Lycopene in tomato paste is four times (28)______ in freshtomatoes. This is because lycopene is insoluble in water and is tightly bound to vegetable fiber. Thus, (29)______tomato products such as pasteurized tomato juice, so up, sauce, and ketchup contain the highest concentrations oflycopene. Cooking and crushing tomatoes as in the canning process and serving in oil-rich dishes such as spaghettisauce or pizza (30)______ increase assimilation from the digestive tract into the bloodstream. Lycopene is a fat-soluble substance, so the oil is said to help absorption to a great extent.