1) Tomatoes have the effects of invigorating stomach, promoting digestion and treating anorexia, which may be related to malic acid and citric acid. Malic acid and citric acid can stimulate appetite, promote gastric acid secretion, help digestion and enhance gastrointestinal absorption. ;

2) People who have poor digestive function or eat more meat and greasy food should eat tomatoes after meals. Obese people and hypercholesterolemia people develop the habit of eating tomatoes regularly, which is beneficial to lose weight and fat, which is also the credit of fruit acid contained in tomatoes. ;

3) Tomato also contains lycopene, which can obviously reduce the increase of vascular permeability caused by histamine in Maoxiang field, and has anti-inflammatory and diuretic effects. It can reduce blood pressure and capillary permeability.

2. What are the disadvantages of eating too many tomatoes?

1) Immature green tomatoes contain solanine, which will be poisoned if eaten too much. Immature tomatoes are not suitable for eating. Tomatoes are cold, and spleen and stomach deficiency are not suitable. It is best to eat raw tomatoes after meals, so as not to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract on an empty stomach, and to avoid combining with gastric acid to form indigestible substances that cause upper abdominal discomfort;

2) It is not advisable to eat a lot of tomatoes on an empty stomach, and the secretion of gastric acid on an empty stomach increases, causing stomach discomfort and flatulence.

1, tomato selection method

When choosing tomatoes, you should choose the kind with round color and a little white skin. I feel that there is a layer of light powder on the surface, so it is very pinched. Soft. The part of the pedicle must be round, preferably with a hint of cyan. The seeds are khaki, red, sandy and juicy. Don't buy tomatoes that are sharp, high-bottomed, angular or irregular in shape, and don't choose tomatoes that feel light. These are all ripe tomatoes.

Mature tomatoes are all red and difficult to handle, and their appearance is polyhedral. After opening, the seeds are green or seedless, and there is no juice in the pulp. This is a method used by vendors to ripen bananas, and an "ethephon" chemical is coated on tomatoes. Although this medicine has low toxicity, long-term consumption is harmful to human health.

2. The value of tomatoes

Tomatoes are also appreciated by ancient and modern doctors. They are slightly cold in nature and sweet in taste, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, cooling blood and nourishing liver, clearing away heat and toxic materials, treating hypertension and scurvy, and preventing arteriosclerosis and liver diseases. According to Lu Chuan's Materia Medica, tomatoes "strengthen the stomach and help digestion, and cure thirst and loss of appetite." Patients with hypertension eat two tomatoes on an empty stomach for half a month in the morning, which has the effect of lowering blood pressure. Eating tomatoes 2-3 times a day instead of fruit is effective in treating gingival bleeding after two weeks. Half a cup of tomato juice, half a cup of watermelon juice, mixed to take, antipyretic and polydipsia. Mix tomato juice with sugarcane juice or hawthorn juice to treat stomach heat and dry mouth.

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