Tomatoes are both a vegetable and a popular fruit. It is sweet and sour, nutritious, rich in vitamin C and calcium, iron, phosphorus and other minerals, by the people's favorite. Tomatoes contain a large amount of pectin and persimmon gum phenol and other components, is a soluble astringent. These substances are easy to chemical reaction with gastric acid, and then the formation of not easy to dissolve the block, so that the stomach tension rises, can cause abdominal pain, vomiting, and even shock experts warmly reminded that fasting should not eat tomatoes. And eat tomatoes after meals, stomach acid and food fully mixed, greatly reducing the concentration of stomach acid, it will not be a hard lump.

In addition, unripe green tomatoes should not be eaten. Because unripe tomatoes, containing a large number of toxic tomato alkali, people eat will appear after dizziness, nausea, vomiting, salivation, weakness and other symptoms of poisoning. After the tomatoes are ripe red, the content of lycopene is greatly reduced to disappear.

The most important nutrient in tomatoes, lycopene, exists only in tomatoes, in the process of cooking, the oil will promote the precipitation of lycopene. Cooking tomatoes will also bring another benefit, that is, the high temperature and fat will make the tomatoes in the absorption rate of lycopene increased.

You can eat tomato and egg noodles on an empty stomach.