I believe everyone is familiar with the nutritional value and efficacy of tomatoes, and many people like to eat them because they are sour and sweet. Many people also add tomatoes to diet meals. Let's share the nutritional value and efficacy of tomatoes.
Nutritional value and efficacy of tomato 1 nutritional components of tomato
In terms of nutrients, tomatoes are rich in minerals such as vitamins, lycopene, magnesium, iron and phosphorus. Every 100g tomato contains vitamin C5mg, vitamin A 192ug, magnesium 12mg, and 22mg of phosphorus, in addition to carotene, potassium, calcium, cellulose and other nutrients needed by human body.
Eating tomatoes regularly has four benefits for your health.
1, beauty skin care
The beauty and skin care function of tomato is mainly reflected in its antioxidant effect. In addition to the antioxidant effect of vitamin C, lycopene is also one of the antioxidant components. Therefore, eating tomatoes regularly can help the body remove excess oxidative free radicals, thus playing an anti-aging role.
Step 2 protect blood vessels
Tomatoes also have a certain protective effect on human blood vessels, mainly because the vitamin P contained in them can reduce the permeability and brittleness of capillaries, thus maintaining the elasticity of blood vessels, so eating tomatoes often has a certain effect on preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
3, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
Pharmacological research shows that lycopene in tomato has certain antibacterial effect and obvious anti-inflammatory effect, which can reduce the increase of capillary permeability caused by histamine.
4. It's good for the stomach
Tomato is also a kind of fruit and vegetable that is beneficial to the stomach. It contains organic acids such as malic acid and citric acid, which can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and help digestion. In addition, the cellulose of tomato also has the function of relaxing bowels, so eating tomatoes regularly has a certain effect on preventing constipation.
Precautions for eating tomatoes
1, tomatoes are slightly cold. For female friends with spleen and stomach deficiency or menstrual period, be careful not to eat raw, so as not to aggravate the coldness in the body. 2. Immature cyan tomato is not suitable for eating, because it contains solanine, which has certain toxicity. 3. When cooking tomatoes, it is not advisable to heat them at high temperature for a long time, so as not to destroy the lycopene contained in them and reduce their nutritional value.
Attachment: Nutritional eating methods of tomatoes
Tomato mixed with sugar
Ingredients: 2 red tomatoes and sugar.
Practice: Wash tomatoes and cut them into watermelon petals. Personally, I like to sprinkle some sugar and put it in the refrigerator for about half an hour.
Nutritional value and efficacy of tomatoes. What are the effects and functions of tomatoes and how to eat them?
1, beauty beauty
Tomatoes contain a lot of vitamin C, which can effectively reduce the formation of melanin and whiten the skin; Moreover, other vitamins contained in it can also help to enhance the physiological function of the skin, effectively improve the rough and aging condition of the skin and provide deep nourishing care for the skin. Eating tomatoes often can help beauty beauty.
Step 2 lose weight
Tomatoes can effectively help to lose weight. First of all, organic acids and other ingredients can help accelerate the decomposition of body fat. Second, tomatoes are also extremely low in calories, which can control the calories in the body and help to lose weight.
3, antipyretic detoxification
Tomatoes are cold, have a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and can also help detoxify and detoxify. Eating tomatoes when you have a fever can effectively drive away the heat in your body and help to reduce the fever.
4. Fight anemia
Tomatoes are rich in iron and can supplement iron for women. There are enough hematopoietic substances in the body, which can prevent anemia and help to raise your complexion.
Step 5 prevent heatstroke
Tomatoes are cool, can clear away heat and detoxify, and have a good effect of relieving summer heat. Eating tomatoes in summer helps to prevent heatstroke.
Step 6 stimulate appetite
Organic acids contained in tomatoes can promote the secretion of oral saliva and gastric juice, greatly increase people's appetite and promote digestion.
7. Prevention and treatment of diabetes
Tomatoes contain B vitamins, which can help effectively metabolize excess sugar in the body and control blood sugar, and tomatoes can also increase satiety, avoid eating too much sugar, and help prevent diabetes.
8. Improve constipation
Tomatoes contain a lot of dietary fiber, which helps to promote digestion, accelerate intestinal peristalsis and relieve constipation.
9. How to eat tomatoes
(1) tomato cod liver oil juice
Ingredients: 1 cup tomato juice, 4g cod liver oil.
Practice: cut the cod liver oil capsule, squeeze it into tomato juice, and then stir it evenly.
Efficacy: Drinking tomato cod liver oil juice every day is helpful to improve the bad complexion such as yellow face and help the skin to restore ruddy and tender.
(2) Tomato and cucumber juice
Ingredients: 2 tomatoes, cucumber 1 root, and appropriate amount of honey.
Practice: Wash tomatoes and cucumbers, cut them into small pieces, put them into a juicer to juice, and then add some honey and mix well.
Efficacy: It can effectively eliminate excess fat in the body and help to lose weight.
(3) Tomato and watermelon juice
Ingredients: tomatoes and watermelon.
Practice: cut tomatoes and watermelons into small pieces and beat them into juice together.
Efficacy: Drinking 1 time 1 hour during fever is helpful to effectively eliminate high fever.
(4) tomatoes mixed with sesame seeds
Ingredients: tomato 1, apple 1, black sesame 15g.
Practice: Wash tomatoes and apples, cut into small dices, mix well and sprinkle with black sesame seeds.
Efficacy: Take 1~2 times a day, which is helpful to improve anemia symptoms.
(5) Tomato soup
Ingredients: 2 tomatoes, a little salt, and appropriate amount of boiled water.
Practice: Wash the tomatoes, cut them into pieces, put them in a pot, add some water to make soup, and then add salt.
Efficacy: Drinking it in hot summer can effectively prevent heatstroke.
(6) Tomato yogurt
Ingredients: tomato 1 piece, yogurt 1 cup, half lemon, and proper amount of honey.
Practice: Wash tomatoes, cut into pieces and squeeze them into juice. After squeezing in lemon juice, add honey and stir well.
Efficacy: It helps to promote the secretion of gastric juice and effectively promote appetite.
(7) Tomato and cucumber juice
Ingredients: tomato 1 piece, cucumber 1 root, appropriate amount of cold boiled water.
Practice: Wash tomatoes and cut them into cubes. Wash the cucumber and cut it into small pieces. All the ingredients are beaten together into juice.
Efficacy: It can effectively help lower blood sugar and improve diabetes symptoms.
Note: Replacing cold boiled water with honey can help diuresis and enhance kidney function, which has a good effect on kidney health care.
(8) tomatoes and pineapple juice
Ingredients: 2 tomatoes, 3 pineapple slices, and appropriate amount of sugar.
Practice: Wash and cut tomatoes, cut pineapples, and juice all the ingredients together.
10, precautions for eating tomatoes
First, tomatoes are cold, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency should not eat tomatoes raw or on an empty stomach. Menstrual women should not eat too much, so as not to aggravate the cold in the body and dysmenorrhea.
Second, immature tomatoes are not suitable for eating and may lead to poisoning.
Third, tomatoes are rich in vitamin C, so they are not suitable to be eaten raw with cucumbers. Vitamin C decomposing enzyme in cucumber will reduce the nutritional value of tomato.
The nutritional value and efficacy of tomatoes 3 Are tomatoes high in calories?
1, the heat is not high.
Tomatoes are not high in calories. 100g edible tomato has 20 calories, while a medium-sized tomato has about165g, and its calories are only 33 calories. This shows that tomatoes are low-calorie foods and are more suitable for eating during weight loss.
2. Nutritional value
Tomato is a very nutritious food, which contains a lot of minerals such as protein, dietary fiber, vitamin C, vitamin E, B vitamins, carotene, calcium and iron, so eating tomatoes can supplement many nutrients needed by human body. These nutrients have many benefits to the body after intake. For example, "lycopene" in tomatoes can inhibit bacteria. In addition, the fruit acid of tomatoes can also reduce the cholesterol content, which is very beneficial to diseases such as hyperlipidemia.
3. Edible instructions
Many friends like to eat tomatoes directly, but in fact, this adaptation method is not desirable, especially for women with spleen and stomach deficiency and menstrual period. This is because tomatoes are cold food, spleen and stomach deficiency and heat, and eating tomatoes raw during menstruation may cause abdominal pain and other symptoms, so it is not recommended for such people to eat tomatoes.
In addition, tomatoes should not be eaten on an empty stomach, because some chemicals contained in tomatoes will react with gastric acid, causing stomach discomfort, so it is best not to eat tomatoes on an empty stomach.