The magic effect of tomato
The nutritional value of tomatoes has been affirmed by the people. In the United States, tomato juice, with its unique nutritional value and health effects has become the second-largest U.S. juice. Focus on health care, morning and wake up Americans to drink different things, like milk, another is the same as tomato juice. Sleeping drunk even before the two things, like also makes milk, while the other, or tomato juice. Can be seen from the popularity of tomato juice.
Why is there such a charm of tomato? The same as the original tomato contains special nutrients - lycopene.
Lycopene is the natural world in one of more than 600 kinds of carotenoids, is a non-cyclic carotenoids, but lycopene singlet oxygen to remove the ability of this radical, but it is beta-carotene 2 times, 100 times stronger than vitamin E. Because in the human body can not produce lycopene, therefore, must be obtained from the diet. In fact, many fruits are rich in lycopene, especially the red meat of fruits, such as pink grapefruit, almonds, Fan Shi, papaya, watermelon and other red meat have a considerable content of lycopene, but tomato is still the best source of . According to the survey, each 100 grams of fresh tomato lycopene content was about 0.88 to 4.2 milligrams, and the more red the more mature the higher content of tomatoes, pink grapefruit, but there are 3.36 mg, pomegranates for a five-point 4 mg, compared with 4.9 mg of red meat watermelon.
Antioxidant lycopene may be, anti-cancer, has recently become a new healthy beverage days after the cyclone swept the red store. In March 1997, "American Health Foundation," an international symposium held in New York, particularly the "tomato and tomato products for cancer prevention effect," be developed. Well-known experts and scholars from around the world, heated discussions on the tomatoes and tomato products in the major carotenoids, namely lycopene for human health contribution. Many experts and scholars led the research team, through epidemiological investigation and the results of in vitro experiments have confirmed that lycopene can help the body to prevent the occurrence of many types of cancer, including prostate cancer, breast cancer and colorectal cancer, rectal cancer, stomach cancer and so on, and can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Regular consumption of tomato juice was suffering from cervical cancer in women, the probability only for the normal female 1 / 3. At the same time drinking tomato juice or lycopene in prostate disease killer.
Indian researchers have recently found that lycopene help to improve male infertility problems. Lycopene in tomatoes can increase the number of male sperm infertility. India's National Medical Association for the
30, 23-year-old to 45
-Year-old male infertility research. The researchers said that these infertile men, the body's lycopene content of the low side, so let them the third consecutive month, twice daily oral
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Milligrams of lycopene. Three months later, these men's sperm count and activity in vivo significantly increased power and more
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The couple successfully conceived and confirmed lycopene index and a direct link between infertility. The researchers said: oral lycopene therapy, it seems indeed unexplained infertility have a good effect.
In improving the human immune system, prevent cancer, activating cells in the same time, lycopene is also anti-aging, skin care, weight loss body sculpting effect. Its highly efficient anti-oxidation can eliminate free radicals in the body leading to aging, to help prevent ultraviolet radiation, reduce skin pigmentation, but also to help balance the skin secretion of water and oil.
Tips for eating tomatoes
There is a know-how to eat tomatoes. The United States, Dr. Kerr Dow HJ did a study of human absorption of lycopene, the conclusion is: intake of raw tomatoes and other lycopene-rich foods, lycopene plasma concentrations changed little, while the heated intake of processed products, plasma levels of lycopene increased by 3 times. This is because the raw tomatoes in lycopene may be trapped in the matrix, the heated cell walls break down, weakened between lycopene and tissue matrix binding force so that lycopene dissolved. Therefore, tomato raw than cooked food, cooked to eat than to drink tomato juice.
Watermelon also contains lycopene is more abundant, but we usually like to eat after iced a result, lycopene and carotene greatly affected. In particular, frozen after the lycopene content will be reduced by 40%, while the carotene content was almost completely destroyed.