The main benefits of tomatoes on the skin:
1, the treatment of skin diseases
Tomatoes have an antifungal effect, can inhibit some of the plant or human pathogenic fungi, which is likely because of the role of the tomato alkaloids contained therein. Because of its rich nutrition, external use of tomatoes can not only treat some fungal infections, but also play a beauty rejuvenation effect.
Practice: fresh ripe tomatoes peeled and seed mashed on the affected area, 2-3 times a day, can cure fungal, infectious skin diseases.
2, clean skin
Washing your face with tomatoes has a good cleaning effect. Tomatoes are rich in fruit acids, can effectively clean pores, and draw excess oil on the face, so that the skin is clean, but also eliminate the bacteria on the surface of the skin, thoroughly clean the skin, effective prevention of acne and pimples, and will not destroy the acidic balance of the skin, to protect the skin, is very suitable for the use of oily skin friends.
Practice: After washing and mashing tomatoes into juice, mix and stir with protein protein powder and then wash your face with the mixture.
3, exfoliation
Tomatoes contain more fruit acid substances, can effectively regulate the pH balance of the skin. Not only that, tomatoes are acidic this feature, making it is a natural high-quality, healthy exfoliation of the clean care products.
Practice: Wash the tomatoes, mashed into juice, with a cotton swab will be the juice on the face, and keep fifteen minutes, you can be the skin of the old keratin fully softened, and then washed with water, you can remove the keratin, to restore the skin's smoothness.
4, whitening
Tomatoes in the vitamin C content is very rich, vitamin C has a very good blocking melanin formation, so that the skin regained the white glow. In addition, tomatoes also contain vitamin C can be oxidized to prevent the destruction of vitamin p, which can synergize the role of vitamin c, reduce dark spots, prevent age spots.
Practice: often eat tomatoes or tomatoes with tomato face wash, face, can make the skin become more white.
5, deep moisturizing
People often eat tomatoes, will make the skin get deep moisturizing effect, and this is mainly due to the tomatoes are rich in carotene. Carotene is digested by the body and converted into vitamin A, which can help the skin fight free radicals as well as moisturize the skin, improve the dryness of the skin, and restore the skin's moisture.
Practice: fresh ripe tomatoes mashed juice with a little sugar, every day with its face, can make the skin delicate and smooth, beauty anti-aging effect is excellent.
6, anti-wrinkle and anti-aging
Free radicals are the biggest murderer of the skin sun old, so the fight against aging, the first need to fight against free radicals, and tomatoes contain lycopene is precisely a strong antioxidant, can effectively eliminate free radicals in the body, to protect the cells from its harm, to prevent the decline of cells and aging. Not only that, lycopene is also able to combat UV damage to the skin, inhibiting the production of free radicals caused by UV.
Eating tomatoes of the four taboos:
1, the best not to eat with cucumber
Because the cucumber contains a vitamin C decomposition enzyme, will destroy other vegetables in the rich content of vitamin C. Tomato is a typical vitamin C-rich vegetables, if the two are consumed together, the vitamin C intake of tomatoes from the tomatoes, and then by the decomposition of enzyme destruction of the cucumber, simply do not achieve the effect of replenishment. It is not possible to achieve the effect of supplemental nutrients.
2, taking heparin, bicoumarin and other anticoagulant drugs should not be eaten
Tomatoes contain more vitamin K. The main role of the tomato is to catalyze the development of the body. Vitamin K: the main role is to catalyze the synthesis of plasminogen as well as coagulin in the liver, the minimum requirement for dogs is 30ug/kg body weight. When vitamin K is insufficient, the clotting time is prolonged due to limiting the synthesis of plasminogen, resulting in subcutaneous and muscle bleeding.
3, should not be eaten on an empty stomach
Tomatoes contain a large number of soluble astringents and other ingredients, and stomach acid reacts, coagulation into insoluble lumps, these hard lumps may be the exit of the stomach pylorus block, causing gastrointestinal distension, pain and other uncomfortable symptoms. Eating tomatoes after meals is not a big problem because stomach acid has been mixed with many foods and its concentration is not large enough to react with the above mentioned gelatin, so there is no big problem.
4, unripe should not be eaten
green tomatoes contain alkaloid glycosides (lobelia alkaloids) in the shape of needle-shaped crystals, very stable to alkaline, but can be hydrolyzed by acid. Therefore, unripe green tomatoes eat often feel uncomfortable, light mouth feel bitter, serious cases will appear poisoning phenomenon. Especially when the green tomatoes begin to rot, its lobelia alkaloids will be destroyed. After the green tomatoes become red, it does not contain anemone alkaloids.