Today, I'm going to talk about tomato efficacy. Tomatoes are so useful in various dishes that they are classified as vegetables, not fruits. In addition, tomato efficacy is high enough to be selected as one of the top 10 superfoods by Time magazine in the U.S., and there is a saying that when tomatoes are cooked, the doctor's face turns yellow. Tomatoes contain numerous ingredients such as lycopene, beta carotene, folic acid, nycin, potassium, and vitamins.
However, the effectiveness of tomatoes changes in the way they are eaten. If you eat or grind tomatoes raw, the tomato content and absorption rate in your body are only 4%. Then how should I eat it? It is to eat tomatoes cooked. It is said that if you cook tomatoes, the lycopene content of tomatoes increases 10 times. Then you can find out how tomatoes are good for your body and how many different kinds of tomatoes are there are.
● Types of tomato efficacy
1. Tomato efficacy - anti-cancer action
There are vitamin C and lycopene, the antioxidant ingredients of tomatoes, and in particular, lycopene ingredients are twice as effective as carotenoids and 100 times as effective as vitamin E. In addition, it is said that men have excellent effects in preventing prostate cancer and breast cancer in women.
2. Tomato Effect - Constipation
Tomatoes are rich in pectin, which is said to be effective for constipation by helping the intestinal activity of the body.
3. Tomato Effect - Diet
Tomatoes are rich in moisture and dietary fiber, so they are good for diet because they have low satiety and calories even if you eat a little, and the lycopene ingredient of tomatoes helps break down fat cells in the body, which is effective in losing weight.
4. Tomato Effect - Skin
It is said that the vitamin E component of tomatoes helps metabolism and makes the skin glossy, which helps skin beauty.
5. Tomato Effect - Osteoporosis
Tomatoes are said to help women's osteoporosis and bones by helping vitamin K lose calcium in their bodies.
6. Tomato efficacy - removal of vascular waste
Tomatoes are rich in potassium, so they help blood vessel health by removing sodium from the body and blood vessel waste.
7. Tomato efficacy - anti-aging
Lycopene, an antioxidant component of tomatoes, is said to be good for preventing aging by inhibiting active oxygen that promotes aging and also helps prevent senile dementia.
8. Tomato Effect - Fatigue
Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C, so vitamin C inhibits and decomposes lactic acid, a fatigue substance in our body, to help recover from fatigue in the body. Also, vitamin C is weak against heat, so if you eat tomatoes to recover from fatigue, it is better to eat them raw rather than cooked.
9. Tomato efficacy - prevention of hypertension
It is said to be effective for arteriosclerosis and high blood pressure because it contains lycopene, beta carotene, various vitamins and routine ingredients, which are ingredients of tomatoes.
● How to increase tomato efficiency
Tomatoes have various ingredients such as vitamins E, D, C, K, dietary fiber, fiber, nycin, and minerals, but among them, lycopene is said to be excellent in preventing cancer due to its anticancer effect. So, in order to increase the lycopene content of tomatoes, the ingredients also increase with the cooking time. According to a food science research team at Corel University in the U.S., heating tomatoes at 88 degrees increases the amount of lycopene that can be absorbed by the human body by 6 percent in 2 minutes, 17 percent in 15 minutes, and 35 percent in 30 minutes.
● Precautions for Eating Tomatoes
In Korea, tomatoes are often ground or eaten raw, and most of them are sprinkled with sugar when eaten raw, and if you sprinkle sugar on tomatoes like this, good ingredients of tomatoes are lost. Eating tomatoes and sugar together is said to prevent tomatoes from absorbing vitamin B to break down sugar in the human body. Also, sugar increases blood sugar, so you should eat tomatoes without sugar.
So we've learned a lot about tomato efficacy. There is a saying that diseases that cannot be cured with food cannot be cured with medicine. It means that the food we eat often is important, and I hope we can eat good food and become healthier during difficult times.