Nutritional value and cooking methods of tomatoes

Here are some tips on how to cook tomatoes and their nutritional value:

Nutritional value of tomatoes

It is rich in vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, organic acids and a small amount of protein. It promotes digestion, promotes diuresis and inhibits a variety of bacteria. Vitamin D in tomatoes can protect blood vessels and treat high blood pressure. Glutathione in tomatoes can delay cell aging and increase the body's ability to fight cancer. Carotene in tomatoes can protect skin elasticity, promote bone calcification, and prevent and treat rickets, night blindness and dry eyes in children.

Tomatoes contain vitamins and minerals that have protective effects on the cardiovascular system and can reduce the incidence of heart disease.

Lycopene has a unique antioxidant capacity, which can remove free radicals, protect cells, prevent DNA and genes from being damaged, and prevent the progression of cancer. In addition to preventing prostate cancer, tomatoes can also effectively reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer, laryngeal cancer, oral cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and other cancers.

Vitamin C in tomatoes can quench thirst, invigorate the stomach and digest food, cool blood and soothe the liver, clear away heat and detoxify, and lower blood pressure. It has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients with hypertension and kidney disease. Eating more tomatoes has anti-aging effects and keeps the skin white.

Nicotinic acid can maintain the normal secretion of gastric juice, promote the formation of red blood cells, help maintain the elasticity of blood vessel walls and protect the skin. Therefore, eating tomatoes is also helpful in preventing and treating arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease. Tomatoes are juicy and can be diuretic, so they are also suitable for patients with nephritis.

For patients who often suffer from bleeding gums or subcutaneous bleeding, eating tomatoes can help improve symptoms.

The malic acid or citric acid contained in tomatoes helps gastric juice digest fat and protein.

Target Group

It is suitable for people with fever, thirst, loss of appetite, habitual gum bleeding, anemia, dizziness, palpitations, hypertension, acute and chronic hepatitis, acute and chronic nephritis, night blindness and myopia; it is not suitable for patients with acute enteritis, bacillary dysentery and active ulcers.

Precautions

Tomatoes should not be eaten with pomegranates.

Dosage

1. Tomatoes are often used in raw cold dishes. When used in hot dishes, they can be fried, stewed and made into soup. Dishes with tomatoes as raw materials include "scrambled eggs with tomatoes", "beef stew with tomatoes", "tomato egg soup" and so on.

2. Green, unripe tomatoes should not be eaten.

3. Do not cook for too long.

4. Adding a little vinegar when cooking can destroy the harmful substance tomatine.

Tomato edible benefits

Hypertension, chronic hepatitis: 250g fresh tomatoes, clean and cut into pieces; 100g beef cut into thin slices, add a little oil, salt and sugar to season and cook together as a side dish. Eat once a day.

Weakness, anemia, malnutrition, dizziness: 100g tomatoes, 100g pork liver, 100g polished rice, 3 slices of ginger. First wash and slice the pork liver, mix with salt, soy sauce, cornstarch, and rice wine; wash and cut the tomatoes; wash, peel, and shred the ginger; wash the polished rice and put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for 20 minutes, add tomatoes and ginger, cook for 10 minutes, then add the pork liver, boil for a few minutes until the liver is just cooked, season and serve.

Heat disease damages body fluid, dry throat, summer heat and thirst: 250g tomatoes, 200g grass carp, appropriate amount of tofu, 1 pinch of hair moss, 1 scallion. First wash the grass carp, dry it and chop it, add hair moss and chopped scallion to season, stir well, and make fish balls. Put the tofu in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil it over high heat, add tomatoes, boil it again, add fish balls and cook until done, season and serve.

Gastric ulcer: Mix 150 ml of tomato juice and 150 ml of potato juice and take it once in the morning and once in the evening.

Bleeding gums: Eat tomatoes instead of fruit, 4 tomatoes (about 250 grams) a day, take for more than 2 weeks to see results.

Heatstroke: Wash and slice 200 grams of tomatoes, boil them into a soup and drink it as tea, either hot or cold.

Hypertension, retinal hemorrhage: Eat 2 raw fresh tomatoes on an empty stomach every morning. Half a month is a course of treatment.

Tips

1. In the hot summer, tomatoes are a better sun protection tool than sunscreen. Because tomatoes are rich in the antioxidant lycopene, consuming 15 mg of lycopene per day can reduce the risk of sunburn by 40%.

2. It is not advisable to eat a large amount of tomatoes on an empty stomach. When the stomach is empty, the secretion of gastric acid increases, causing stomach discomfort and bloating and pain.

3. If the bottom of the tomato is not round but very pointed, it is usually caused by excessive use of hormones. Do not buy it.

4. How to remove tomato skin: Pour boiling water on tomatoes, or blanch tomatoes in boiling water, and the tomato skin can be easily peeled off. Use a spoon to scrape the tomatoes from the tip to the bottom, so that the outer skin and the inner flesh stick more closely. At this time, it is easy to peel the tomato skin with your hands.