Eating tomatoes at night can accelerate the body's basic metabolism, promote the body's active consumption of energy intake, improve physical fitness, and make the body less likely to gain weight.

In addition, melatonin contained in tomatoes can help sleep and promote the secretion of growth hormone in the body. Growth hormone can accelerate metabolism and promote the decomposition and burning of fat.

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Morphological characteristics:

The tomato is millet, and its plant height is 0.6-2 meters. All tomatoes are covered with mucus glands and have a strong smell. The stem lodging easily. The leaves are pinnately compound or pinnately parted, with a length of 10-40 cm. Leaflets are extremely irregular and vary in size, generally 5-9, oval or oblong, 5-7 cm long, with irregular serrations or lobes at the edges.

Peduncle 2-5 cm long, usually with 3-7 flowers; Pedicel length1-1.5cm; Calyx radial, lobes lanceolate, persistent when fruit; Corolla radial, about 2 cm in diameter, yellow. Berries are oblate or nearly spherical, juicy, orange or bright red and smooth; The seeds are yellow. Flower and fruit period, summer and autumn.

Growing habits:

Tomato is a warm vegetable. Under normal circumstances, the optimum temperature for assimilation is 20-25℃, and the optimum soil temperature for root growth is 20-22℃. Like light, the light saturation point is 70000lx, and the suitable light intensity is 30000-50000lx.

It is also a short-day plant, and tomatoes like water. Generally, the soil humidity is 60-80% and the air humidity is 45-50%. The requirements for soil conditions are not strict, and fertile loam with deep soil layer, good drainage and rich organic matter grows well. The optimum pH value of soil is pH6-7.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-tomato