Medicinal value
Tomatoes taste sweet and sour, slightly cold. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting salivation, quenching thirst, nourishing blood, cooling blood, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion. Clinically, it is mostly used to treat dry mouth, hot thirst, loss of appetite, stomach heat and bitter taste, gingival bleeding, aphtha and bitter taste, as well as the auxiliary treatment of hypertension and coronary heart disease.
Tomatoes are rich in carbohydrates, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, carotene, citric acid, malic acid, nicotinic acid, citric acid, adenine hydrochloride, arginine, glutathione and other components. The carbohydrates contained in tomatoes are mainly sugar, of which glucose and fructose are the main ones, and starch and sucrose are few. Modern medical research shows that citric acid, malic acid and sugar in tomatoes can promote digestion and have diuretic effect on patients with nephritis. Lycopene can inhibit many kinds of bacteria and help digestion. Tomatoes can also reduce the content of cholesterol in the blood, thus having the effect of preventing and treating atherosclerosis.
The content of vitamins in tomatoes is also considerable. According to analysis, 500 grams of tomato contains 52 milligrams of vitamin C, which is equivalent to 1250 grams of apple, 1500 grams of banana and 2200 grams of pear. Tomatoes are acidic, have the function of protecting vitamin C, and are not easy to be destroyed during cooking. Among the vitamins contained in tomatoes, vitamin P can protect blood vessels. Vitamin PP can protect skin health, maintain the normal secretion of gastric juice and promote the formation of red blood cells. Vitamin C has the function of strengthening the body resistance and strengthening the constitution for patients with gingivitis, periodontitis, epistaxis and hemorrhagic diseases, and can increase the anti-cancer ability of human body. Carotene can protect skin elasticity, promote bone calcification, and prevent rickets, night blindness and dry eye in children. Vitamin B 1 is beneficial to brain development and slows down brain cell fatigue.
The latest research found that tomatoes have anti-cancer effect. After the researchers added natural pigments to the oral cancer cell culture solution, the cancer cells quickly lost their activity and gradually died. Studies in the United States and Italy have confirmed that tomatoes can shrink prostate tumors and reduce the risk of digestive tract cancer, pancreatic cancer and breast cancer.
Diet menu
Fried towel gourd with tomato
Ingredients: 250g of tomato, 250g of loofah, 0/0g of auricularia auricula/kloc, and proper amount of refined salt.
Practice: (1) Wash tomatoes, blanch them with boiling water, peel them and cut them into pieces of equal size. (2) The loofah is peeled and washed, cut into diamond-shaped blocks and packaged for later use. (3) Soaking auricularia auricula in water, shredding and packaging for later use. (4) Put the wok on a high fire, heat the wok, stir-fry the tomatoes and loofah for a few times, then add the fungus, add the salt and stir-fry, cover the pot, simmer with low fire until cooked, and season.
Functions: clearing liver, calming nerves, cooling blood, promoting blood circulation, promoting fluid production and calming nerves.
How to eat: Can be used with meals or single meals, morning and evening 1 time.
Indications: Hypertension and arteriosclerosis belong to hyperactivity of liver yang. Symptoms include dizziness, headache, tinnitus, irritability, insomnia, dreaminess and rapid pulse.
◆ Tomato and red jujube porridge
Ingredients: tomato 125g, jujube 50g, medlar 15g, rice 100g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: (1) Wash and dice tomatoes for later use. (2) The red dates are pitted, and the medlar is washed for later use. (3) Wash the rice, put it in a casserole with red dates and medlar, add water, boil it on strong fire, and continue to cook it into porridge with slow fire. (4) Add diced tomatoes and iced sugar and cook for 5 minutes.
Functions: nourishing yin and blood, nourishing stomach and spleen, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
How to eat: morning and evening 1 time.
Indications: physical weakness after illness, deficiency of both qi and blood after delivery, weakness and illness, etc. Symptoms include dizziness, blurred vision, insomnia and dreaminess, mental fatigue, insufficient diet, numbness of hands and feet, pale tongue with white fur. In addition, it can also be used to prevent cancer.
◆ Tomato and potato beverage
Ingredients: 500 grams of tomatoes and 200 grams of potatoes.
Practice: (1) Wash tomatoes, blanch them with hot water, peel them, then mash them and juice them to get 150ml. (2) Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into pieces, and juice with a juicer, and take the juice 150ml. (3) Mix the two kinds of juice evenly, stew and take it.
Function: invigorating spleen and stomach, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
How to eat: Take/kloc-0 every morning and evening, and take it continuously for 7 ~ 1 0 days for 1 course of treatment.
Indications: Chronic gastritis belongs to deficiency of stomach yin, characterized by dull pain in the epigastric cavity, noisy, retching, dry mouth and throat, hunger, dry stool, red tongue with little body fluid and little coating.
◆ Tomato and pork liver porridge
Materials: tomato 100g, pork liver 100g, japonica rice 100g, and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: First, wash and slice the pig liver, and mix well with salt, soy sauce, raw flour and rice wine; Wash tomatoes and cut into pieces; Wash ginger, peel and shred; Wash japonica rice, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for 20 minutes, add tomato and ginger, cook for 10 minute, then add pork liver, cook for a few minutes until pork liver is just cooked, and season with food.
Indications: physical weakness, blood deficiency, malnutrition and dizziness.
Remind you: n kinds of remedies for delicious tomatoes. This folk prescription comes from the internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before use.