You must already know the tomatoes, sour fruits taste sweet, precious little cheaper on the market and the supermarket has been used in various dishes as a mixture of various vegetables, mix chili sauce, salad, pizza, tomato juice, tomato sauce (also fry oil instead), or eaten directly as a fruit and vegetables. Tomato itself included in the vegetables (not fruit). Tomato consists of around 7500 varieties throughout the world, because it is no wonder there are tomatoes in colors ranging from red, green, yellow, orange, purple (black), and even green punctate. While in Indonesia, most tomato varieties known and planted a tomato fruit and the usual type of sauce made oval-shaped oval as gondol cultivars gondol green and white, and the descendants of imported tomato cultivars Roma. Meanwhile in developed countries within the last decade, various types of heirloom tomatoes or types derived from the past with organically developed with open-pollinated (non-hybrid). It has a variety of colors, a richer taste and texture are not the same as commercial tomatoes.
You need to know that tomatoes are marketed commercially selected from species that are considered the most durable economic reasons, but sacrificing taste, texture, and of course nutrition. While various types of vegetables and fruits to produce a variety of heirloom cultivars with the natural seasons. Various types of heirloom vegetables and fruits hardly ever known by the general public. Whereas some studies have shown that the actual variety of vegetables and fruits that grow in accordance season contain the nutrients and benefits according to the season, for example, be useful to counteract the various conditions or diseases usually appear on the season. So what of the tomato nutritional and efficacy?
Nutrition and Benefits
The usual tomatoes consumed in the world contain a variety of good properties for the body and among others:
Antioxidant Rich
Tomatoes are rich in one of the strongest natural antioxidant lycopene are able to prevent the risk of prostate cancer. However, these benefits derived from cooked tomatoes, not raw. Lycopene is also able to improve the ability of the skin against Ultra Violet rays (UV) from the sun.
In addition to lycopene, various kinds of tomatoes also contain other antioxidants such as carotenoids and anthocyanins. Carotene is known to be very useful to prevent cancer, improve eye health, and improve cognitive abilities.
Hidden anthocyanins research presented in the symposium on health benefits in 2007 states that anthocyanins useful to prevent the risk of cancer, anti-aging, prevent the risk of neurological diseases, anti-inflammatory, preventing the risk of diabetes, and prevent bacterial infections.
Rich in vitamin C
100 grams or about 1 fresh red tomatoes contain about 13 mg of vitamin C is 22% adequate daily needs. Vitamin C is very useful as an antioxidant free radical stress, boost immunity, prevent inflammation and bleeding gums because it is needed in the synthesis of collagen, carnitine, and tyrosine in the body. Vitamin C plays a role in 8 different enzymes and enzyme cofactor for the biosynthesis of many important biochemical processes in the body. Lack of vitamin C can increase the risk for atherosclerosis disease, and increased risk of lung cancer in smokers.
Rich in vitamin A
Consumption of 100 grams or 1 fresh red tomatoes alone contains 833 IU of vitamin A which will provide the daily needs of 17%. The main benefit of vitamin A include maintaining eye health, maintain healthy skin and body surface tissue, and protect from infection.
Rich in vitamin K
1 fresh red tomatoes contain approximately 8 mcg of vitamin K (10% cover the daily needs) is very useful to prevent bleeding and blood clotting factors are normal.
Potassium-rich minerals
Tomatoes are also rich in potassium minrel content (237 mg/100 g or 7% or the daily needs) is useful to keep the electrolyte balance of the body, ATP and sodium koregulasi, normalize blood pressure and heart function, prevent fatigue and prevent dry skin.
Mineral Rich Mangan
Besides potassium, tomatoes are also high in minerals, manganese (0.1 mg/100 g or 6% daily needs) is efficacious as a cofactor functions of enzymes, digestive enzyme formation, maintaining healthy hair and skin, nervous system and helps the cell formation.
Rich Fiber / Fiber
Fresh tomatoes contain enough dietary fiber (1.2 grams gr/100 or 5% daily needs) is very useful to aid digestion, prevent constipation, prevent cancer, lower blood sugar, lower cholesterol, and diet help. Because it is more advisable to eat fresh tomatoes blended directly rather than because of the reduced fibernya content.
Other Nutrient
In addition to the above variety of nutrients, tomatoes also contain enough vitamin B6 or Piridoksin (0.1 mg/100 g or 4% daily needs) and folic acid (15 g 4% mcg/100 daily needs). Vitamin B6 and folic acid as a potent producer of energy, amino acid metabolism and fatty acids, produce hormones, maintain cardiovascular health, nervous system and immune system, healthy skin, hair and red blood cells, and cell repair of genetic material (DNA).
Shipping Storage
Generally regular commercial tomatoes harvested before cooking to make it more durable before getting ripe and eventually rot. But the enzyme causes a ripe tomato may stop working when the tomatoes are stored at a temperature below 12.5 OC. While the tomatoes are ripe conditions are better kept at room temperature than in the refrigerator because it can reduce the flavor. That's why there is often a sticker "Never Refrigerate" (do not be stored in the refrigerator) in the tomatoes sold in supermarkets.
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