When you are watching the dishes from all over the world, tomatoes are definitely one of the frequent guests on everyone’s table. You can see them from Taiwanese tomato scrambled eggs to Italian tomato sauce. How much do you know about this common ingredients? Today, let Grace, a brand nutritionist for "PrimePlus Health Designer", bring everyone a good understanding of the "Tomato" that occupies a strong position in the global agricultural product market!

Is tomatoes a vegetable or a fruit?

Before you deeply understand tomatoes, you must first solve the doubts in everyone’s mind: Are tomatoes vegetables or fruits?

In fact, the nutrients of small tomatoes are closer to fruit types, while large tomatoes are similar to vegetables types, so they are actually different from different food types! The sugar in small tomatoes is more than that in large tomatoes, so pay special attention to the amount of small tomatoes to avoid excessive sugar content.

Tomatoes can provide human carbohydrates, dietary fiber, minerals and vitamins, while the nutrient content in large and small tomatoes is slightly different. As for small tomatoes, the mineral content and vitamin C content are more than larger tomatoes.

In addition to the nutrients mentioned above, tomatoes also have an important phytochemical — "Carotenoids", and the "β-Carotenoids" and "Carotenoids" rich in tomatoes are both one of the Carotenoids. At present, many research results have shown that they have a positive impact on human health. It is worth noting that the content of the small tomatoes is higher than that of the large tomatoes.

Nutrient ingredients of tomatoes

Tomatoes are low in heat and rich in a variety of nutrients. In addition to being considered by fat-reducing people as a sacred ingredient, they are also considered by most Taiwanese people to be a good ingredient for nourishing.

The 4 Best Benefits for Eating Tomatoes

Tomatoes were selected as the top ten quality foods by the American era magazine vote in 2002, and were also on the list of the top ten super foods recommended by Harvard Medical College in 2020. What are the benefits of eating tomatoes?

1. Resisting oxidative pressure Free radicals are the source of oxidative pressure in the body. When too many free radicals are accumulated in the body, it may lead to the production of certain diseases. The ability of solanin to remove free radicals is 10 times and 2 times that of vitamin E (α-tocopherol) and β-hussin, and one of the important physiological functions of vitamin C is also antioxidant. Therefore, consuming tomatoes rich in vitamin C and solanin can help the human body to remove free radicals and reduce oxidative damage.

2. In addition to antioxidant, vitamin C in tomatoes can also promote the production of gelatin and assist iron absorption, allowing us to maintain healthy skin and show good color. Regardless of the large or small tomatoes, the moisture accounts for more than 90% of the weight. Replenishing moisture can increase the body's fresh cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical cervical

3. Control blood pressure and maintain cardiovascular health. Take 1 serving (23 grams, 220g) of the chrysanthemum tomatoes. At the same time, you can replenish 440mg of the chrysanthemum tomatoes. Therefore, the chrysanthemum tomatoes are considered high-deep food (per serving can provide > 300mg of the chrysanthemum). Drying is mostly found in vegetables and fruits. It takes appropriate amounts of drilling during diet, which can help the excretion of water and skeletons, thereby reducing blood pressure. Taiwan does not have a recommended daily intake for debris, but the U.S. Career Association pointed out that taking 3,500mg of debris per day can minimize cardiovascular disease risks. But not everyone is suitable for eating more drinks! Because of decreased kidney function, patients with kidney patients may need to restrict their pits. At this time, they should especially avoid taking high-deep foods (such as tomatoes).

4. Several other studies have pointed out that solanin may have the effect of preventing prostate cancer, can reduce cardiovascular disease risks and reduce physical inflammation, and is related to brain and bone health. Although the above conclusions still require more practical experiments to confirm, it is undeniable that the red beans in tomatoes are indeed a harmful phytochemical, and it is worth further exploring its relationship with health.

How to eat tomatoes

"I want all the nutrients for tomatoes!" If you want to completely extract nutrients in tomatoes, you can grasp the following three principles:

1. To increase the extraction of elongate, you should choose red tomatoes, and eat elongate after heating. Therefore, the redder tomatoes will have more elongate! Before cooking and processing, solanin is mainly present in tomatoes in trans chemical structure. The solanin in this structure is not conducive to human digestion and absorption. This structure needs to be changed through heat treatment or other processing methods to increase the bioavailability of the human body for solanin. In addition, the cooking process can also destroy the cell wall of tomatoes and help the release of sophora red. Therefore, I want to take elongate and eat cooked red tomatoes as much as possible.

2. Combined with oils and fats, improve the absorption of phytochemicals. Because phytochemicals and β-Hua is a fat-based phytochemical. Combined with oils and fats, it can increase the absorption of this type of phytochemicals. After a lot of experiment results, some research pointed out that if you want to achieve the best absorption of somatoblast in processed foods for tomatoes, you need to use at least 10 g of fat, while for uncooked conditions such as salads or raw tomatoes, the fat may be as high as 15 g.

3. If you want to get vitamin C from it, you should eat raw tomatoes. In addition to phytactics, the vitamin C content is also not low. However, Vitamin C is very sensitive to light and heat, and is easily soluble in water, so excessive heating and cooking will cause it to lose. If you want to eat vitamin C through tomatoes, you can choose to eat it in a raw and unheated form. Every 100g of small tomatoes contains 43.5mg of vitamin C, so eating raw small tomatoes is a good choice.

Although the chrysanthemum tomatoes has a higher content of red tomatoes, they usually do not use fruits to the dish. On the one hand, they avoid excessive sugar content, and on the other hand, they are afraid of the loss of vitamin C in the fruits. Therefore, when cooking hot dishes, you can choose large tomatoes of vegetables, choose red color as much as possible, and heat them with oil to increase the absorption of luster. Small tomatoes can be mixed into the diet in the form of stir-fry or after-fry fruit. In this way, you can easily eat eucocorticoid, β-Huspermum and Vitamin C!

After reading today's article, do you know Tomato more? Next time you visit the market, you might as well grab the tomatoes of all sizes and cook delicious and nutritious tomatoes when you go home!