The difference between vegetables and fruits is not a scientific category, but more a habit.

Fruit is usually eaten raw and juicy, including the seeds of plants. Vegetables can be made into vegetables, usually from roots, stems, leaves and so on. Refers to plants, including all kinds of plant fruit members who were driven out of the fruit clan because they could not be eaten raw or sweet. Tomatoes meet the three necessary conditions for fruit production, but they are classified as vegetables because they are often cooked and cooked. However, another member of the tomato family, small tomatoes (cherry tomatoes) are regarded as raw fruits because they are often eaten raw.

Are tomatoes cold or hot?

Tomatoes are slightly cold, belonging to cool fruits, which can be eaten by the general population and can alleviate the symptoms of thirst and loss of appetite. They are both vegetables and fruits, and the fruits contain additional substances such as glutathione and lycopene, which are rich in nutrition, and are especially suitable for infants, pregnant women, the elderly, patients, hypertension, kidney disease, heart disease, hepatitis and fundus diseases. And patients with frequent gingival bleeding or subcutaneous bleeding.

What are the benefits of eating tomatoes?

1, promote development: tomatoes can promote the growth and development of human body, especially children, so children can eat cherry tomatoes as one of the main fruits, which can supplement their physical development.

2. beauty beauty: Tomatoes can increase the body's resistance, delay people's aging, and reduce the occurrence of wrinkles, so they are especially suitable for women's beauty, which can be said to be a natural beauty fruit for women.

3, quenching thirst: tomatoes taste sour and sweet, and appetite decreases in hot summer. Eating some cherry tomatoes regularly can relieve summer heat, increase appetite, help digestion and protect the normal excretion of gastric juice.

4. Clearing away heat and detoxicating: Tomatoes have a good therapeutic effect on diseases such as fever and thirst, overeating greasy and thick indigestion, heatstroke, stomach heat and bitter taste, and inflammation of deficiency fire.

5. Assisted digestion: The content of vitamin PP in tomatoes ranks first among fruits and vegetables. The role of vitamin PP is to protect the skin, protect the normal excretion of gastric juice, promote the production of red blood cells, and also have an auxiliary treatment effect on liver diseases.