Unripe green tomatoes do not eat, but has been ripe red tomatoes can be eaten raw, but it is not recommended to eat raw, the reasons are as follows:

1, because tomato red pigment is fat-soluble, raw food is not too easy to fully absorb and utilize tomato red pigment;

2, raw tomatoes do contain a kind of alkali alkaloid called lobelia alkaloids, if the consumption of up to a certain amount of the human body can cause discomfort.