Each person can meet the body's need for several vitamins and minerals by consuming 50 grams-100 grams of fresh tomatoes per day.

Tomatoes are rich in vitamins A, B, C and the human body can be directly absorbed glucose, fructose, as well as indispensable calcium, phosphorus, iron, sulfur, potassium and other mineral elements, but also contains vitamin P. Raw tomatoes, both to protect the mouth of the blessing, but also do not make the vitamins suffered damage, can be said to be a two-in-one.

Medical research has also confirmed that tomatoes contain an anti-cancer and anti-aging substances called glutathione. In addition, it also contains a substance that can inhibit the activity of tyrosinase, so that the pigmentation of the deposited skin faded or disappeared, to keep the skin clean and prevent the formation of butterfly spots and age spots. So tomatoes are also known as beauty good vegetables.

Chinese medicine believes that tomatoes are sweet and sour in nature, slightly cold, into the stomach meridian, has the effect of quenching thirst, stomach and eliminating food, cooling the blood and calming the liver, clearing heat and removing toxins, lowering blood pressure.

It is important to note that unripe tomatoes contain a large number of toxic substances, "tomato alkali", eating easy to be poisoned, nausea, vomiting, salivation and general fatigue, and other symptoms, the serious will be life-threatening. Therefore, do not eat unripe tomatoes.