Tomatoes, tomatoes, fruit color red, generally slightly flat rounded spherical, umbilical small, thick meat, sweet, juicy, good flavor, raw food, cooked food can be, but also processed into tomato sauce, tomato juice; pink tomatoes, fruit pink, nearly spherical, umbilical small, smooth fruit surface, taste sweet and sour moderate, better quality, yellow tomatoes, fruit orange fruit, rounded spherical, thick flesh, flesh and surface and sand, raw food taste bland!
Tomato quality requirements: the general fruit shape circumference, no cracks, insect bites, moderately ripe, sweet and sour taste, meat fat, ventricular small. It is advisable to choose moderately ripe tomatoes, not only good taste, but also high nutritional value.
Nutritional value
Tomatoes contain vitamins and mineral elements that have a protective effect on the cardiovascular system and can reduce heart attacks.
Lycopene has a unique antioxidant capacity, can scavenge free radicals, protect cells, so that the deoxyribonucleic acid and genes from destruction, can stop the cancer process. In addition to its preventive effect on prostate cancer, tomato can also effectively reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, rectal cancer, laryngeal cancer, oral cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and other cancers.
The vitamin C in tomato has the effect of quenching thirst, strengthening stomach and eliminating food, cooling blood and calming liver, clearing heat and detoxification, and lowering blood pressure, which is a good adjuvant therapy for high blood pressure and kidney patients. Eat more tomatoes have anti-aging effect, so that the skin to keep white.
Nic acid can maintain the normal secretion of gastric juice, promote the formation of red blood cells, is conducive to maintaining the elasticity of the blood vessel wall and protect the skin. So the consumption of tomatoes on the prevention and treatment of arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease is also helpful. Tomatoes are juicy, can diuretic, nephritis patients should also eat.
Frequent bleeding gums or subcutaneous bleeding patients, eat tomatoes help improve the symptoms.
The malic or citric acid contained in tomatoes helps the gastric juices to digest fats and proteins.
Eating effect
Tomato is flat in nature, sweet, sour and slightly cold, and belongs to the liver, stomach and lung meridians;
It has the effect of strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood and calming the liver, generating fluids and quenching thirst, tonifying and nourishing blood and improving appetite;
It can cure thirst and loss of appetite.
Applicable people
General population can be eaten.
1. It is suitable for people with fever, thirst, loss of appetite, habitual bleeding gums, anemia, dizziness, palpitation, hypertension, acute and chronic hepatitis, acute and chronic nephritis, night blindness, and nearsightedness;
2. It is not suitable for patients with acute enteritis, bacillary dysentery, and active ulcers.