1. When eating
You can slice raw tomatoes or make small tomatoes into salads directly. You can drink some tomato juice for dinner, or add some ketchup, mashed vegetables and canned tomatoes to add color to the dishes.
Citric acid in tomatoes can promote sugar metabolism and burn fat; Lycopene can inhibit the increase of fat cells and absorb excess fat. In addition, for those "big stomach kings", the dietary fiber and pectin rich in tomatoes are simply saviors: they can effectively expand the stomach, stimulate the satiety center, send a "full" stimulus signal to the brain, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, and promote the elimination of waste in the body. What's even more amazing is that tomatoes can live in harmony with the two "enemies of weight loss". Eating with oil not only has better absorption effect, but also can eliminate constipation; When it is eaten with carbohydrates, it can effectively reduce the glycemic index, making it difficult to increase the glycemic value, thus creating an in-vivo environment that is easy to lose weight.
2. You must consume more than15mg of lycopene every day.
When eating tomatoes raw, you can eat two large tomatoes. Red series (generally big red, hard skin, not easy to peel) is better than peach series (generally yellowish, bright and thin skin, easy to peel), and contains lycopene three times as much as peach series. Or eat 17 small tomatoes, also known as cherry tomatoes, which have higher nutritional components, and carotene, vitamin C and dietary fiber are all 1.5 ~ 2 times that of ordinary tomatoes.
When drinking tomato juice-you can drink a bottle of tomato juice. If you want more obvious effect, it is recommended to drink 2 ~ 3 bottles a day. Drinking a bottle of tomato juice is equivalent to eating two raw tomatoes.
When cooking with tomato-ketchup or ketchup, you can use nearly 4 tablespoons (80 grams and 60 grams respectively). For canned tomatoes, you can use 1 can (170g). Tomato paste and mashed tomatoes and vegetables are processed foods, which contain more lycopene than raw tomatoes.
The "ketchup", "mashed tomato" and "canned tomato" mentioned here are all different from "ketchup". The first three kinds are concentrated sauces made of fresh tomatoes, which are cooked and mashed in a blender, then stir-fried with olive oil, minced garlic and minced onion, and then mixed with bay leaves, rum, water and pepper. "Ketchup" is a sauce made by mixing fresh soup with prepared ketchup, adding white sugar and refined salt to dry the water. Sauce is not recommended because it is high in sugar and calories. So please read the label and ingredients clearly when buying.