Nutritional value of cherry tomatoes

Cherry tomatoes are a variant of tomatoes, which are very good new varieties bred by modern agricultural scientists.

Cherry Tomato Introduction

Cherry tomatoes are also known as grape tomatoes, small tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and pearl tomatoes. They are also known as "little golden fruits" and "love fruits" abroad. They are both vegetables and fruits. They are not only colorful and beautiful, but also delicious and nutritious. In addition to containing all the nutrients of tomatoes, their vitamin content is higher than that of ordinary tomatoes. They are listed as one of the "four major fruits" to be promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Cherry tomatoes are a tropical crop. The fruit is about 1 to 3 cm in diameter, bright red and transparent, sweet, seedless, with good taste and high nutritional value.

Nutritional value of cherry tomatoes

Cherry tomatoes contain special substances such as glutathione and lycopene. These substances can promote the growth and development of the human body, especially the growth and development of children, and can increase the body's resistance and delay human aging. In addition, lycopene can protect the human body from carcinogenic toxins in cigarettes and automobile exhaust, and can improve the body's sun protection function. In recent years, American and German scientists have found that lycopene in tomato products can not only prevent and fight cancer, especially prostate cancer, but also treat prostate cancer. The content of vitamin PP in cherry tomatoes ranks first among fruits and vegetables. The function of vitamin PP is to protect the skin, maintain the normal secretion of gastric juice, promote the formation of red blood cells, and also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on liver disease. The malic acid or citric acid contained in cherry tomatoes helps gastric juice digest fat and protein.

Cherry tomato edible effect

Cherry tomatoes have the effects of strengthening the stomach and digestion, clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and calming the liver, and promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

Target Group

It is edible for general population.

1. It is especially suitable for infants, pregnant women, the elderly, patients, patients with hypertension, kidney disease, heart disease, hepatitis, fundus disease, etc. For patients who often suffer from gingival bleeding or subcutaneous bleeding, eating cherry tomatoes can help improve the symptoms;

2. Patients with acute enteritis, bacillary dysentery and active ulcers should not eat it.

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