1, cooked, tomatoes in the antioxidant lycopene has a variety of health benefits, cooked tomatoes in the lycopene level is higher than raw tomatoes. Therefore, cooked tomatoes will have a better effect on heart protection.

2, people eat heated tomatoes, more can increase the concentration of antioxidants of the lycopene in the wandering. This is because the high temperature destroys the cell walls of tomato cells, thus increasing the release of antioxidants such as lycopene. In addition, tomatoes in the cooking process, often use peanut oil, salad oil and other vegetable oils, and these fats and oils will help tomatoes will be lycopene and other fat-soluble antioxidants naturally released, to give full play to the role of antioxidants.

3, of course, everything has its drawbacks, after heating, tomatoes in the loss of vitamin C, but tomatoes in the lycopene and other antioxidants content is significantly higher. Therefore, cooked tomatoes than raw eat repeatedly banned vegetarian tomatoes of the overall nutritional value to be higher. In addition, tomato skin contains a large amount of lycopene, so it is best not to discard the skin when eating.