Family is the fresh fruit of tomato, family Solanaceae. Alias tomato, tomato, tomato plum, fire persimmon. Sexual flavor attribution meridian sex slightly cold, taste sweet and sour; into the spleen, a stomach, kidney meridian. Effects Indications: Promotes the production of body fluid to quench thirst, strengthens the stomach and eliminates food, cools the blood and calms the liver, clears heat and removes toxins. It can be used for treating fever, thirst, loss of appetite, hyperactivity of liver yang, gastric fever, bitter mouth, irritable heat and other diseases. Nutritional composition per 100 grams of protein 0.6 grams, 0.2 grams of fat, 3.3 grams of carbohydrates, phosphorus 22 mg, iron 0.3 mg, carotene 0.25 mg, thiamin 0.3 mg, riboflavin 0.03 mg, 0.6 mg of niacin, ascorbic acid 11 mg. In addition, also contains vitamin P, tomato j, glutathione, malic acid, citric acid. Therapeutic effects 1. Promote digestion Citric acid, malic acid and sugar in tomatoes, has a role in promoting digestion, lycopene has an inhibitory effect on a variety of bacteria, but also has the function of helping digestion. 2. Protect skin elasticity, promote bone development tomatoes contain carotene, can protect the skin elasticity, promote bone calcification, but also can prevent and control pediatric rickets, night blindness and eye dryness. 3. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease cholesterol produced by the biological salt can be linked with tomato fiber, through the digestive system out of the body, and because the body needs biological salt decomposition of intestinal fat, and the human body needs to use cholesterol to replenish the biological salt, so that the cholesterol content in the blood is reduced, to play the role of prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis; tomatoes, vitamin B can also protect blood vessels, prevention and treatment of high blood pressure. 4. anti-cancer, anti-aging tomatoes contain glutathione a substance, this substance in the body when the content of the rise, the incidence of cancer is significantly reduced. In addition, this substance can inhibit the activity of tyrosinase, so that the pigmentation of people fade away, freckles reduce, play a cosmetic role. 5. Anti-fatigue, liver protection Vitamin B1 contained in tomatoes is conducive to brain development, alleviate brain cell fatigue; contained in mercuric chloride, liver disease has an auxiliary therapeutic effect. Health recipes 1. milk tomatoes 200 ml of fresh milk, tomatoes 250 grams, fresh eggs 3. First of all, wash the tomatoes, cut into pieces to be used; starch with fresh milk into juice, eggs fried eggs to be used; fresh milk juice to boil, add tomatoes, eggs cooked for a few moments, and then add salt, sugar, peanut oil, pepper to mix well that is to become. This soup is delicious, nutritious, with the spleen and stomach, tonifying the efficacy of gas, suitable for the old and weak, weak spleen and stomach should eat. 2. tomato fried meat 200 grams of fine pork, tomatoes, 50 grams of green beans, onions, ginger, garlic, appropriate amount. First pork cut into thin slices, tomatoes cut into cubes; vegetable bean curd tendon, wash, cut into segments; frying pan 50 ml of oil, on the fire until 70% hot, the first under the meat, onions, ginger, garlic stir-frying, to be the meat white, and then under the tomatoes, bean curd, salt slightly fried. Add the right amount of soup in the pot, slightly smothered cooking for a few moments, and then add a little monosodium glutamate when the pot, stir well. This dish has a stomach and digestion, tonic effect, for the spleen and stomach and loss of appetite patients are particularly suitable. 3. Sugar tomatoes 4 tomatoes, 100 grams of sugar. The first tomato washed, scalded with boiling water, remove the tip and skin, all the two halves, and then cut into crescent blocks, mounted on a plate, add sugar, mix well into. This dish has the effect of thirst, stomach and liver, suitable for fever, dry mouth and thirst, hypertension and other diseases. 4. tomato and tofu soup tomatoes, tofu 20O grams each, 50 grams of soybean rice, a little sugar. Tofu slices, into the boiling water blanching, draining for use; tomatoes clean, boiling water after scalding peeled, chopped into mush, sautéed in a frying pan, add salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, stir fry a few for use; soybean rice clean; frying pan under the broth, soybean rice, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, pepper, tofu, boiling to taste. Thickening with wet starch, under the tomato sauce, push well, out of the pot is complete. This soup has a healthy complementary spleen and stomach, beneficial gas and in the middle, the efficacy of the thirst, applicable to the spleen and stomach cold, poor diet, indigestion, epigastric distension and other conditions. People eat, strong body, disease prevention and resistance to disease. Precautions tomato cold, loose stools and diarrhea should not be eaten. Selected Literature Lu Chuan Materia Medica: "Shengjin quench thirst, stomach digestion, cure thirst, loss of appetite". Food Chinese Medicine and Convenient Prescriptions: "Clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood and calming the liver". Cultural Appreciation Historical legend: tomato native to South America, the local people gave it a terrible name - wolf peach. For a long time, people talk about "wolf peaches" and color change, look at it and fear, to the 16th century, the British Duke of Orodari traveled to the Americas, back to the country bravely picked a "wolf peaches" as a gift to bring his lover, Queen Elizabeth. Since then, the wolf peach by the European people named "love apple". In the 18th century, a French painter in the tomato sketching, see it hibiscus color, berry colorful, amusing, moved to taste the desire of the tomato, risked eating a, after eating not only without any discomfort, but also feel the sweet and sour delicious. From then on, created the tomato edible way.