Tomato soup is a Chinese and Western home soup, the north of China known as the tomato, the Guangdong people called tomato, as the name implies, is the "come to the goods". According to the relevant documents, tomato about the Ming Dynasty era before the introduction of China, so China's ancient research and records about the therapeutic and medical value of tomato is not much, "Lu Chuan Materia Medica," said tomato "to produce fluids to quench thirst, strengthen the stomach and eliminate food, treatment of thirst, loss of appetite.

This is true, weekdays, if the stomach and intestines have stagnation, fullness, boiled a tomato soup to drink, stagnation effect; summer heat thirst, poor appetite, tomato soup has the therapeutic effect of the thirst of the appetizer.

According to the classification of Chinese medicine, tomato is slightly cold, sweet and sour taste, into the liver, spleen, stomach, such as thirst and blood pressure as a fever (liver), then peeled raw food; such as the stomach for the dietary therapy, can be boiled and eaten in soup.

Modern and Western nutritional research on tomatoes, more prominent in recent years by the tomato extracted lycopene for prostate hyperplasia drugs, the efficacy of very good; in addition, studies have shown that tomatoes cooked food than raw food nutritional value is higher. However, a recent study refers to U.S. researchers in a recent animal experiments found that the simultaneous consumption of tomatoes and cauliflower (including broccoli), which are considered to have anti-cancer effect of the two foods, the effect of preventing prostate cancer is better than consuming one of them alone.

The report said that the tomato and cauliflower mix eaten by the lab rats was made from fresh tomatoes and cauliflower, and that eating fresh tomatoes was better than eating lycopene, which is more readily absorbed by the body in cooked tomatoes. Scientists believe that lycopene in tomatoes inhibits the production of androgens, which is effective in preventing prostate cancer, while cauliflower also contains chemicals that inhibit the growth of cancer cells.

The researchers suggest that older prostate cancer patients who are under observation and awaiting chemotherapy or radiation should consider including tomatoes and cauliflower in their daily diets. Adult men without the disease can also use this method to prevent prostate cancer.

Weekday tomato soup, ingredients with cabbage and carrots; fear of cold people with potatoes; if the spleen and stomach cold and heat stagnation, only with tomatoes and potatoes with beef or pork ribs soup, rarely with broccoli or cauliflower, due to scientists' new discoveries, the author specially simmered a pot of tomato cauliflower oxtail soup (can also be paired with spare ribs or pork?), the taste is fresh and sweet, and the taste is sweet and fresh. The taste is so fresh and sweet that readers may want to make this soup more often in the future.

The cauliflower is easy to ripen, and it is very suitable for soup. Use diced tomatoes, diced cauliflower (or broccoli), some fresh corn grains, and pork ribs to cook for forty-five minutes, and it will be a sweet soup; if you don't want to use meat, you can add diced potatoes for a richer soup.

There is also a pairing I do not know if you like, is to use tomatoes with eggs rolled soup, with lean meat or fish slices with the roll more flavorful, sweet soup flavor, there is the therapeutic effect of the fire.

Tomatoes are cold and sweet in nature, so if you have a cold spleen or stomach, you can add ginger to the soup, and there is no coldness.