The health benefits and storage methods of tomatoes

Tomatoes are a food rich in vitamins. Let’s learn about their main functions.

Health Benefits

1. The organic acids such as malic acid and citric acid contained in tomatoes can promote the secretion of gastric juice and digest fat and protein. They can increase gastric acid concentration, adjust gastrointestinal function, and help the recovery of gastrointestinal diseases.

2. Tomatoes are cool in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and have the effects of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid, nourishing yin and cooling blood. They have a good therapeutic effect on fever, thirst, dry mouth, bleeding gums, stomach heat and bitter mouth, and rising virtual fire.

3. The vitamin C, rutin, lycopene and fruit acid contained in tomatoes can lower blood cholesterol, prevent atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, and have a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on hypertension.

4. The vitamin A and vitamin C contained in tomatoes can prevent cataracts and also have a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on night blindness.

5. Tomatoes contain carotene, vitamin A and vitamin C, which have the effects of removing freckles, beautifying, anti-aging and skin care. They have certain effects on fungal and infectious skin diseases.

6. 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. After absorption, it accumulates in the prostate, adrenal glands, etc., promoting the secretion of prostatic fluid and maintaining ejaculation function.

Storage method

1. Place tomatoes with intact skin that are 70% to 80% ripe in a refrigerator at 0°C and they can be stored for a while.

2. Put the 50-60 ripe tomatoes with intact skin into a plastic bag, tie the bag tightly, and place it in a cool and ventilated place. Open the bag for 5 minutes every day, wipe off the moisture adhering to the inner wall of the bag, and then tie the bag tightly. When all the tomatoes are ripe, there is no need to tie the bag. Tomatoes can be stored for more than 1 month.

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3. Select tomatoes with intact skin and stems, wash them and put them in a jar, cover them with a bamboo stick in a rice shape, and press them with heavy objects to prevent the tomatoes from floating up. Pour light salt water into the jar, and make sure the salt water covers the tomatoes.

Food precautions

1. Tomatoes are especially suitable for people with fever due to febrile diseases, thirst, loss of appetite, habitual bleeding gums, anemia, dizziness, palpitations, hypertension, acute and chronic hepatitis, acute and chronic nephritis, night blindness and myopia.

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

3. Green, unripe tomatoes should not be eaten.

4. Tomatoes should not be eaten together with pomegranates.

Food

Fried Pork with Tomato

Ingredients: 200 grams of tomatoes, 75 grams of pork tenderloin, 50 grams of lard, 15 grams each of soy sauce and sugar, 2 grams of MSG, and appropriate amounts of green onions, water starch, and pepper water.

Method: 1. Wash the meat and cut into small thin slices; wash the tomatoes, remove the stems and cut into thick slices.

2. Put 40 grams of lard in a wok, add the meat slices and stir-fry after it is hot, then add chopped green onion, soy sauce, pepper water, MSG, tomatoes, and sugar and stir-fry. When cooked, thicken with starch and serve with frying pan.

Tomato and Egg Soup

Ingredients: eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers.

practice:

1. Wash and cut tomatoes into pieces, wash and slice cucumbers, and beat eggs.

2. Add water to the pot and put in 2 slices of ginger and cook together.

3. After the water boils, add tomatoes, then turn to low heat, pour in the eggs, put in the cucumber, add a little salt, and turn off the heat (you can add a few drops of sesame oil before turning off the heat).

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Tomato juice can remove freckles

Studies have shown that eating tomatoes regularly or drinking a glass of tomato juice every day can help prevent and treat freckles. Tomatoes are rich in carotene, B vitamins and vitamin C, which can effectively reduce the formation of melanin. Tomatoes also contain lycopene, which has antioxidant capacity, enhances the body's immune function, and has anti-aging and skin-moisturizing effects. Tomatoes can be eaten raw or cooked. Because they are rich in vitamin C, heating will cause some damage, while lycopene can be better released after heating, so they can be eaten raw or cooked.

Remedies for curing diseases

1. Treat skin diseases: Peel and deseed fresh ripe tomatoes, then mash them and apply to the affected area 2 to 3 times a day to treat fungal and infectious skin diseases.

2. Treatment of high blood pressure: Choose 1 to 2 fresh ripe tomatoes every morning and dip them in white sugar on an empty stomach. It has a significant effect in lowering blood pressure.

3. Treatment of anemia: Eat one tomato and one apple and 15 grams of sesame seeds at one time, 1 to 2 times a day. Long-term persistence can cure anemia.

4. Treatment of ulcers: Patients with mild peptic ulcers can mix half of the squeezed tomato juice and half of the potato juice and drink it once in the morning and evening every day for 10 times in a row, and the ulcers can be cured.

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Tomato Wars

The annual traditional folk festival Tomato Festival, the "Tomato War", is held in the Valencia region of Spain. The "Tomato War" originated in the 1940s and is held on the last Wednesday of August every year. It has evolved into one of the most attractive traditional festivals in Spain for domestic and foreign tourists.

The "Tomato War" started in the People's Square in the center of Buñol Town. The number of people "participating in the war" and "watching the war" reached more than 40,000. Before the "war", the city government transported tomatoes to both sides of the street by truck as "ammunition" for the "war". With an order, thousands of "soldiers" grabbed ripe, big, red tomatoes and threw and rubbed them on the heads or other parts of the bodies of the "enemies" they did not know. Soon, everyone was covered with red tomato juice, and the whole street became a "tomato river". With the rocket signal sent from a balcony, the "Tomato War" was declared over. At this time, the citizens of the small city of Buñol and thousands of volunteers joined another battle - cleaning the streets. About an hour later, the entire square and street were cleaned as before, and the city of Buñol returned to its usual tranquility.