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Is the nutritional value of red tomato high or yellow tomato high?
Yellow tomato just inherits the characteristics of ordinary red tomato-low calorie and high fiber, which can bring satiety and help people eat less. As for its lycopene, some people think that it may be lower than red tomato because of its lighter color.

Yellow tomatoes have low lycopene content, and other nutrients are similar to those of red tomatoes.

Lycopene, after several years of research, has been proved to improve human immunity, resist the damage of free radicals to cells and reduce the occurrence of cancer, especially male prostate cancer.

Therefore, red tomatoes are better. Why do yellow tomatoes have slimming effect? It turned out to be like this:

Yellow tomato just inherits the characteristics of ordinary red tomato-low calorie and high fiber, which can bring satiety and help people eat less. As for its lycopene, some people think that it may be lower than red tomato because of its lighter color.

Yellow tomatoes have low lycopene content, and other nutrients are similar to those of red tomatoes.

On June 5438+ 10, 2002, tomatoes topped the list of "Top Ten Foods" in Time magazine. Sure enough, last year, there were waves of upsurge, and it was still in the ascendant.

First of all, yellow tomatoes have caused a hot sale in the market, because the famous host Yu Meiren publicly declared that yellow tomatoes can lose weight. For a time, people who want to lose weight are flocking to buy a yellow tomato for 100 yuan. After clarification by many nutritionists and experts, it finally came out that it only inherited the characteristics of ordinary red tomatoes-low calorie and high fiber, which can bring satiety and help people eat less. As for its lycopene, some people think that it may be lower than red tomato because of its lighter color.

After that, tomato juice set off another wave of enthusiasm. It turned out that there were only one or two kinds of salty tomato juice on the shelves. In less than two months, more than 20 new sweet flavors poured in. In the beverage area, there are bottles and bottles of tomato juice, which are beautiful and moving, and TV advertisements promote the benefits of lycopene. It seems that it will expire if you don't drink it.

Indeed, after several years of research, lycopene has been proved to improve human immunity, resist the damage of free radicals to cells and reduce the occurrence of cancer, especially male prostate cancer.

However, a few days ago, the Consumer Foundation released a survey report, showing that the sodium content and calories of 24 kinds of tomato juice on the market may be too high, so we should pay attention to their use.