Three "consumption taboos" about tomatoes are circulated on the Internet to help you distinguish between true and false

The process of human aging is a process of continuous oxidation. If you want to delay aging, you can eat more foods with antioxidant effects, such as tomatoes. Each 100 grams of tomatoes contain 14 mg of vitamin C, and also contain nutrients such as lycopene and glutathione. Under the comprehensive synergy of these nutrients, a certain antioxidant effect can be produced. Eating tomatoes often has a certain auxiliary effect on preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and prostate cancer. Regarding tomatoes, there are a lot of "consumption taboos" on the Internet. Which are true and fake?

Rumors of "Consumption Taboo" 1:

When buying tomatoes, don't buy cyan, and you will be poisoned if you eat it.

Truth: The color of the unprecedented tomato is green, containing a certain amount of toxic ingredients, alkaline alkali sunflower. A large amount of food is possibility of food poisoning. In addition, there are special varieties of tomatoes, which will also be blue after maturity. This kind of cooked tomatoes will not make people poisoning. When buying, if you can't take it, you should ask the merchant clearly.

If you buy unprecedented green tomatoes, it is best to place it for a few days. After the skin color becomes red, it will be cooked and consumed. After a few days of placement, the tomatoes will be partially decomposed.

Rumors of "Consumption Taboo" 2:

Tomatoes are best to eat raw, and lycopene is easy to decompose when heat.

Truth: Good food is good, eat raw and eat raw and eat raw, just replace it.

From the perspective of lycopene, tomatoes are more effective. Heating helps tortoise to lycopene. Add a little oil to lycopene during cooking. To eat western tomatoes, to avoid high temperature heating for a long time, it will cause many nutrient losses with poor thermal stability.

From the perspective of ingesting glutathione and vitamin C, it is better to eat tomatoes raw, because glutathione and vitamin C will be destroyed to a certain extent when heating.

Rumor of "Consumption Taboo" 3:

Tomatoes and cucumbers cannot be eaten together because there are substances that destroy vitamin C in cucumbers.

Truth: All plants contain vitamin C, and there are elements that promote it, so don't worry too much.

Therefore, not only the cucumber contains the elements that inhibit vitamin C, but also the tomatoes, and cabbage, radish and other vegetables.

Furthermore, if the cucumber has a strong substance that destroys vitamin C, why not destroy the vitamin C in the cucumber first? Why should it be close to the vitamin C in the tomato, but leave the vitamin C in front of you?

Therefore, such a statement is simply nonsense, and everyone can eat and boldly eat together. (Edit Li Chuang)

Source: Beijing Youth Daily

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