Tomatoes should be noted that the spleen and stomach cold and menstruation period of women should not eat raw, should not eat on an empty stomach, should not eat unripe green tomatoes.

1, should not be eaten raw, especially cold spleen and stomach and women during menstruation. If you only eat tomatoes as a fruit to supplement vitamin C, or summer heat, it is better to eat raw.

2, should not be eaten on an empty stomach, stomach acid secretion increased on an empty stomach, because tomatoes contain some chemical substances and stomach acid combined with the formation of insoluble lumps, eating often cause abdominal pain, resulting in gastric discomfort, gastric distension.

3, should not eat unripe green tomatoes, because it contains poisonous alkaloids. Eating unripe green tomatoes, will feel bitter, eat more, serious can lead to poisoning, dizziness, nausea, discomfort, vomiting and general fatigue and other symptoms, serious and life-threatening.

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Nutritional difference between raw and cooked:

Eat raw to supplement vitamin C, eat cooked to supplement antioxidants. The longer the heating time, the greater the increase in lycopene and other antioxidants. Lycopene, an antioxidant, is about 10 times more effective than vitamin E at inhibiting harmful free radicals.

Previous studies have found that lycopene may reduce a person's risk of cancer and heart disease. Recently there has been growing evidence that people primarily need a variety of antioxidants, and that the vitamin C found in some fruits and vegetables contributes very little in the way of antioxidants.

While it is true that there is a loss of vitamin C during the heating process, taken together, the antioxidant activity of tomatoes is increased by heating. The findings are not meant to encourage people to eat only cooked and processed fruits and vegetables.

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