2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
In less than four hundred years, the fruits of an exotic plant of the American tropics from hostile poisonous tomatoes have turned into a useful vegetable, more often called "tomato". Scientists, concerned about the health of Mankind, included them in the top ten most useful products. Tomatoes not only enrich the body with useful substances, but carry out prophylaxis in it, preventing serious and dangerous diseases
Fabulous transformations
Not only in fairy tales, terrible monsters turn into enviable princes. Real life is filled to the brim with wonderful transformations to which a person gets used so quickly that he does not notice anything unusual in them.
"Crazy berry", as the tomato fruit was called in Russia for its ability to turn a normal person into a madman, if handled correctly, turned out to be a very useful fruit and vegetable, which scientists now recommend for daily use. How “sideways” could yellow and red-sided tomatoes turn to a person in order to change their opinion about themselves so dramatically?
Trump card - lycopene
The secret of the amazing reincarnation of the tomato was discovered by modern science, which has learned to penetrate the structure of living tissues and decipher the components that make up it.
Studies of the composition of tomato fruits have found among a large set of useful substances a special carotenoid called "lycopene". The unique abilities of lycopene are fantastic. Nature herself has created a medicine that helps humans in the fight against many diseases. Among them, cancer is gaining momentum, sparing neither young nor old, affecting the digestive organs, lungs, male genital organs (prostate cancer).
Of course, lycopene is also found in other berries and fruits, for example, in the red pulp of grapefruit, which a Russian consumer got to know not so long ago, as well as in old acquaintances - watermelon and apricots. But, in terms of the quantitative content of lycopene, among all its owners, the leader is the signor tomato.
Persistent before cooking
In the long winter, not everyone can enjoy fresh tomatoes every day. To prolong the life of a useful product, people subject it to culinary treatments, in which many vegetables lose some of their useful components.
But lycopene here also confirms its uniqueness, not succumbing to the destructive forces of such processing, being preserved in fried, boiled, salted tomatoes.
Direct connection
Scientists at Harvard University, after extensive research, have confirmed a direct link between the consumption of foods containing lycopene and a reduced risk of cancer.
This connection is especially evident when it comes to prostate cancer in men, stomach and lung cancers. But the uniqueness of lycopene doesn't end there. It has a prophylactic effect against cancers of the mammary glands and cervix, esophagus, pancreas and rectum.
Tomato consumption rate
How many pink-cheeked tomatoes should be eaten to reduce the risk of falling into the number of cases?
Scientists recommend eating three kilograms of fresh tomatoes per working week, or replacing eating fruits with tomato juice in an amount of 150-200 ml per day.
A glass of tomato juice a day will help to establish metabolic processes in the body, get rid of excess fat, and improve blood circulation. For elderly people who are free from cholelithiasis (in case of illness, the intake of juice should be minimized), but suffering from hypertension and progressive glaucoma, the juice will help to reduce arterial and intraocular pressure.
Tomato juice is high in iron, therefore, it is able to fight anemia, coming out the winner.
Both children and adults love juice. Moreover, if it is tomato juice, which has a huge number of beneficial properties for the benefit of human health.
Attention
People suffering from cholelithiasis should limit the intake of tomato juice.
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