Tomatoes are one of the common ingredients on the table, many people know that eating tomatoes can supplement vitamin C, in fact, the efficacy of tomatoes is far more than this, tomatoes are also good for the heart, how to eat can be good for the heart? What nutritional value do tomatoes have?

Crocus sativus has the characteristics of slight cold, sweet and sour, quenching thirst, cooling blood and nourishing liver, clearing away heat and toxic substances.

Clinically, it is mostly used to treat dry mouth, irritability, thirst, loss of appetite, hypertension and coronary heart disease. People with poor digestive function or eating more meat and greasy food eat tomatoes after meals.

According to nutriology, eating red vegetables and fruits is also good. Tomatoes are not only rich in vitamin C, but also rich in carotene and vitamin B, including rutin, which has a certain role in protecting blood vessels and preventing hypertension. The content of various vitamins is 2-4 times higher than that of apples, pears, bananas and grapes, and it contains 0.6% of its total weight of minerals, including calcium and phosphorus, zinc and iron, manganese, copper and iodine.

Eating raw can take in more vitamin C.

If eaten raw, vitamin C in tomatoes has not been destroyed, vitamin C can improve human immunity, protect gums, whiten and nourish the face.

Tomatoes are both vegetables and fruits, contain little sugar, and it is very suitable for diabetic daily consumption like cucumber.

Eating cooked can absorb more lycopene.

Tomatoes contain natural lycopene, which is one of the strongest antioxidants found in natural plants, known as “gold in plants”.

Lycopene can eliminate the free radicals that cause aging and diseases in the human body; help protect blood vessels, prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases; can improve human immunity, help delay aging; can help prevent and improve prostate hyperplasia, prostatitis and other urinary system diseases, to prevent and treat prostate cancer, digestive tract cancer, breast cancer, endometrial cancer and other cancers have certain benefits.

Lycopene is widely found in various organs and tissues of the human body, but with the increase of age and the occurrence of some diseases, the lycopene in the human body will gradually decline. Some data show that the low level of lycopene in the human body is related to some chronic diseases and cancers, such as prostate cancer, uterine cancer, atherosclerosis and so on, as well as human life span.

Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, which can be absorbed by the human body to the greatest extent after heating and oil release. Because high temperature destroys the cell wall of tomato cells, thus increasing the release of antioxidants such as lycopene. In addition, tomatoes in the cooking process, the vegetable oil used to help lycopene and other fat-soluble antioxidants naturally released, giving full play to antioxidant effect.

Many people think that juicing is better, better digestion and absorption, is that really the case?

Juicing can destroy the nutrients in fruits and vegetables, such as vitamin C and dietary fiber, which can be nutritious after juicing, but the elderly and children with chewing problems can choose to drink juicing, but must drink it immediately after squeezing, so that the loss of nutrients will be relatively less. Vegetable juice with too long preservation time is not recommended.

Outside to buy is not freshly squeezed fruit juice, generally contains preservatives and pigments, is not recommended to drink frequently, usually eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.

Note: to eat ripe tomatoes, immature green tomatoes containing solanine, eating immature green tomatoes, will feel bitter, eat more, serious can lead to poisoning, dizziness, nausea, systemic discomfort, vomiting and fatigue and other symptoms, serious will also be life-threatening.