Another name tomatoes, the persimmon, Wolf plum, peach, saffron kumquat, saffron, six YueShi, the persimmon HaiJiao, MaoLaGuo.

Tomatoes genera solanaceae, for annuals vegetables. Originated from South America, all China are common cultivation, summer fruit more.

The earliest generation tomato growth in South America, because colour is delicate and charming, people on it very vigilant, regarded as "the fox's fruit", say again Wolf peach, only for viewing, dare not taste.

Now it is many people table delicacy. Tomatoes are rich in natural carotene, vitamin C and B vitamins, particularly vitamin P content vegetables coronal.

Tomatoes edible parts for many juice berries. It's very many varieties, according to the shape of the fruit can be divided into the circular, oblate, oblong, pointed round, According to the skin color points, bright red, pink, orange and yellow.

Red tomatoes, fruit lubricious fiery, generally in micro oblate sphere, periumbilical small, meat, sweet, thick juice and refreshing, flavor, raw food, cooked food can, can also be processed into tomato sauce, tomato juice, Pink tomatoes, pink red, nearly spherical shape, periumbilical small, fruit surface is smooth, taste sour and sweet and moderate, better quality, tomato, orange yellow fruit, fruit big spherical shape, pulp thick, fleshy and surface and sand, pale, appropriate cooked food born taste.

Tomato quality request: general with shape boy, no fissure, insect bites, ripe measurable, sweet and sour perfectly, meat, ventricular hypertrophy outsiders. Appropriate chooses mature moderate tomatoes, not only taste good, and high nutritional value.

Nutritional value

Contains rich vitamin, mineral, carbohydrates, organic acid and small amounts of protein. Have promote digest, diuresis, inhibition of bacterial action. Tomatoes vitamin D can protect blood vessels, treat high blood pressure. Tomatoes in glutathione, delay the ageing of the cells, increase the body's ability to fight. Tomatoes in carotene can protect the skin elasticity, promote skeletal calcification, prevent child rachitic, night blindness and dry eye syndrome.

Tomato contains on cardiovascular protective vitamin and mineral elements, can reduce the heart attacks.

Lycopene has unique anti-oxydation ability, can free radicals, protect the cell, make deoxyribonucleic acid and gene from damage, can prevent cancerous process. Tomatoes except for prostate cancer prevention role outside, still can effectively reduce pancreatic cancer, colorectal, laryngeal cancer, oral cavity, lung, such as breast cancer risk of cancer.

Lycopene in the vitamin C, promote the secretion, soa xiaoshi, cool blood flat liver, qingrejiedu, reduce blood pressure, the effect of hypertension, kidney people have very good auxiliary therapy effect. Eat more tomatoes have anti-ageing effect, make skin moist and white.

Nick acid can maintain the normal gastric juice, promote the formation of the secretion of red blood cells, and helps keep hemal wall elasticity and protect the skin. So edible tomato in the prevention of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, hypertension also helpful. Tomato juice, can diuresis, nephritis patients also advised edible.

Often happen gum bleeds or subcutaneous bleeding patients, eating tomatoes may help improve symptoms.

Tomatoes contained malic acid, citric acid, conduce to gastric juice or on fat and protein digestion.

Applicable people

Suitable for hot venereal fever, thirsty, inappetence, habitual gum bleeds, anemia, dizziness, heart palpitations, hypertension, acute or chronic hepatitis, acute or chronic nephritis, night blindness and corrrective edible, Acute enteritis and bacterium dysentery and ulcer stage patients should not edible.

note

Tomatoes avoid and pomegranate with food.

Usage and dosage

1, tomato, often used in raw food, cold dish when used for hot dish can fry, stewing and soups. Take it as the raw material of vegetables "scrambled egg with tomato", "tomato beef stew for", "potato soup" etc.

2, cyan his unripe tomatoes unfavorable feed.

3 and when cook don't long boiled.

4, boiled slightly when some vinegar, can damage of harmful substances tomato alkali.

Edible efficacy