Is it okay to eat tomatoes? 25 benefits of tomatoes

　　Tomatoes are a very common food with rich nutritional value and contain an important disease-resistant factor in the human body. tomato Red pigments and carotenoids have a wide range of medicinal effects.

　　1. Relieve throat pain

　　Mix half a cup of tomato juice and half a cup of warm water together and use it to rinse your throat to relieve the symptoms of sore throat.

　　2. Treat bleeding gums

　　Wash the tomatoes and eat them as fruit for half a month to cure bleeding gums.

　　3. Treat ulcers

　　Patients with mild peptic ulcer can drink half a cup of squeezed tomato juice and half a cup of potato juice once a day in the morning and evening for 10 times, and the ulcer can be cured.

　　4. Treat high blood pressure

　　Choose 1-2 fresh ripe tomatoes every morning and eat them dipped in sugar on an empty stomach. The effect of lowering blood pressure is obvious.

　　5. Lower blood lipids

　　Researchers found that lycopene protects LDL from oxidative damage, thereby reducing atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease . Dutch scholars have found that supplementing lycopene can reduce serum cholesterol to less than 5-20 mmol/L. Researchers have specifically selected 66 patients with myocardial infarction and measured the carotenoid content in their subcutaneous fat. They found that the patient's lycopene content was lower than healthy people； Another study found that the serum lycopene concentration of patients with hyperlipidemia who did not receive lipid-lowering treatment was lower than that of normal people. Lycopene is a fat-soluble substance and has a strong adsorption effect on lipid substances. It can crush macromolecular fat substances, promote their rapid biological oxidation, consume excess fat in the body, remove lipid substances from blood vessel walls, improve arteriosclerosis, lower blood lipids, blood pressure, and eliminate obesity.