1、 Many Italian delicacies adopt tomatoes as materials very often ,which gives people a wrong idea that tomatoes has come from Europe. Actually, Mexico is the place of origin of tomatoes and Columbus is the first one who has brought tomato seeds to Europe.

    2、Eating tomatoes often can reduce wound infection, because they contain abundant antioxidants.

    3、Eating Tomatoes often can effectively prevent prostate cancer, colon cancer and pancreatic cancer.

    4、Organic tomatoes contain lycopene many times than those of ordinary tomatoes

    5、Tomatoes possess the function of stablizing blood sugar and cholesterol, because tomatoes are an vital source of dietary fibre.

    6、The colors of tomatoes can be red, yellow, orange, green, purple. However, there is no blue tomato.

    7、Canned tomato juice has higher rnutritional value than fresh tomatoes. The reason is that fresh tomatoes sold in the market are almost picked for sale when they have not got ripe yet. tomato juice,however,

    is always processed and made using totally ripe tomatoes. In addition, through 100 degrees of high-temperature sterilization, canned tomato juice is suitable to drink for people of all physical characteristics.

    1.意大利美食善用西紅柿，讓人誤以為西紅柿源自歐洲。其實(shí)，它的原產(chǎn)地是墨西哥，哥倫布第一次把西紅柿的種子帶到歐洲。

    2.多吃西紅柿能減少傷口感染，因?yàn)楦缓�抗氧化劑�?/p>

    3.西紅柿預(yù)防前列腺癌、結(jié)腸癌和胰腺癌，作用最明顯。

    4.有機(jī)西紅柿比普通西紅柿所含的番茄紅素高很多倍。

    5.西紅柿有穩(wěn)定血糖和膽固醇的功效，因?yàn)槲骷t柿是膳食纖維的重要來源。

    6.西紅柿的顏色分為紅、黃、橙、綠、紫，但是沒有藍(lán)色。

    7. 罐裝的番茄汁要比新鮮的西紅柿營(yíng)養(yǎng)價(jià)值高。因?yàn)槭惺鄣男迈r西紅柿都是在它尚未成熟時(shí)摘下，而制番茄汁的西紅柿則是熟透轉(zhuǎn)紅后才摘下加工的。此外，罐裝的番茄汁經(jīng)過100℃的高溫殺菌，適合任何體質(zhì)的人飲用。