Tomato lycopene may have therapeutic potential as an antioxidant but may not have significant lipid lowering effect in Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Medicinal plant research at The University of the West Indies, Mona (1948-2001), resulting in the award of 53 graduate degrees, has identified 334 plant species as medicinal; 193 of these were tested, and crude extracts from 80 of these were bioactive. This included 23% of the endemics; 44 plants had identified natural products of which 29 were bioactive.