What are the benefits of eating tomatoes?

Tomatoes are more than just a vegetable. Eating tomatoes has many benefits. Let's take a look:

Benefits of eating tomatoes

Tomatoes are not only nutritious, sweet and sour, but also can prevent and treat many diseases.

1. Treatment of bleeding gums: People who often suffer from bleeding gums can wash tomatoes and eat them as fruit for about half a month.

2. To reduce high fever: squeeze half a cup of tomato juice and half a cup of watermelon juice, mix them and drink them once every hour.

3. To relieve summer heat: Choose 2 high-quality tomatoes, wash and slice them, add a little salt, and boil them into a soup to drink.

4. Lowering blood pressure: People with high blood pressure can take 2 high-quality tomatoes every morning, wash them and eat them on an empty stomach, which has a certain therapeutic effect.

5. Beauty: Squeeze an appropriate amount of tomato juice, add a little white sugar, stir well and apply to the face, hands and other exposed parts. It can make the skin white and delicate, and at the same time enhance the skin's resistance.

6. Treatment of night blindness: People suffering from night blindness can squeeze half a cup of tomato juice and half a cup of potato juice, mix them and drink them, one cup each morning and evening, for five days as a course of treatment.

Precautions

1. When eating tomatoes, be careful: choose tomatoes that are large, round, plump, and beautiful in appearance. Do not eat tomatoes with growths, because these growths are tumors.

How to choose tomatoes

There are many varieties of tomatoes. The ones with a strong red color are rich in lycopene, which is very good for preventing cancer. The light yellow ones contain only a small amount of carotene and no lycopene. The orange ones have less lycopene, but higher carotene content. The sugar content in small tomatoes is higher than that in large tomatoes, so they are more suitable as fruits, but the calories are also slightly higher. Other things such as the content of vitamins vary depending on the variety and cultivation method, and cannot be generalized. Fan Zhihong believes that if you want to meet the need for vitamin C, all kinds of tomatoes are good. The key is to choose those that mature in season, because those that mature in season have a higher vitamin content than those grown in greenhouses. If you want to supplement antioxidant ingredients such as lycopene and carotene, you should choose dark red or orange ones instead of pink or yellow ones.

Kind tips

When eating tomatoes, it is best not to remove the skin, because the skin of tomatoes also contains vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. In addition, pay attention to washing tomatoes when eating them raw.