Everything About Tomatoes. Check it Out!
Did I think we all familiar with tomato? It is kind of fruits with red colour. Tomato is one of the healthiest fruit. Tomato is useful as a source of natural antioxidants. With attractive colour, tomato also enriched with Vitamin A and Vitamin C.
Based on the history Tomato or Lyopercisum esculentum was invented in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. In French, tomato is also well known as “Love Apple” or Pomme D’amour since tomatoes are believed to be able to recover impotence and increase the number of sperm and increase agility movements.
Further research by DR. John Cook Bennett from Willoughby University, Ohio, is the first person who examines the benefits of tomatoes, in November 1834, shows that vegetables can cure diarrhoea, gall attack, indigestion and restore liver function. Plants are also high in vitamin Cand vitamin A, which is useful to boost immunity. So it’s well-consumed anyone from an early age. Another research has done by the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, also found other benefits of tomatoes. They said that a yellow gel that covered the seeds of plants to prevent blood clots that cause heart disease and stroke.
In my country, there are two types of tomatoes. There are green tomato and red tomato. The red one contains vitamin C and vitamin A five times more than the green plants. Ripe tomatoes also enriched with vitamins. Children should be accustomed to eating red vegetables. It is essential for healthy eyes.
Destroy free radicals
I thought we all known that the best tomato types were the red tomato. In the red pigment, there’s another value. The red colour in tomatoes contains more lycopene, an antioxidant substance that can destroy free radicals in the body caused by pollution, smoking, and ultraviolet rays. Recently research shows that lycopene also useful in preventing cell damage that can trigger cervical cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer and pancreatic cancer. We can only found this substance in tomato, but other fruits like red grapes, papaya and watermelon. Especially for adults, tomatoes should be eaten every morning as much as one or two pieces. Sour taste in the plant came from citric acid content. So it can increase appetite. The bitter taste of tomato is very well consumed by the women who have PMS (Pre Menstrual Syndrome).
The benefit of tomato like:
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Useful to prevent and inhibit the growth of cancer cells, like prostate, cervix, breast and endometrium.
Eliminate fatigue and increase appetite.
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Reduce the risk of appendicitis.
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Eliminate acne.
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It is slowing the decline of eyes function because of the influence of age (age-related macular degeneration).
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It helps reduce the risk of heart problems.
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It helps maintain healthy liver, kidney, and prevent bowel problems.
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Good in treating diarrhoea.
- Increase the number of sperm.
What can we do with tomato?
Although feeling a little sour, but tomatoes also useful to increase our appetite. That’s why plant usually used for juice, soup, pasta, salad, sauce, baked parmesan tomatoes, etc.
Tomato juice
Pasta sauce
Tomato sauce
Tomato salad
Tomato soup
Baked Parmesan tomatoes
Tomatoes Festival (La Tomatina)
I’ll take you to tour a fantastic festival in the beautiful country. If you vegetarian and you liked fruits, I thought you would interest in this festival. You can also found this information from other hubbers. I thought this festival related to this topic. If we get bored with juice, pasta, sauce or other food by using tomato as the main ingredients, we can try to join in this festival. We can find a lot of tomatoes. Even a tomatoes flood, we can search this from Google pictures where many people soak their body in tomatoes pasta and fighting each other using plants as a weapon. It looks wild festival but entertaining indeed.
Tomato throwing Festival (La Tomatina) was first performed in 1945 and received world recognition in 1952. We can usually see this festival every year in August. After one hour finished the war, the city of Valencia looks like a blood flood. But this is not the real blood, but it came from tomatoes that thrown earlier. It seems wasting the money. But as we know, most famous festivals have a motto "money doesn't matter", because we talk about tradition. I thought the organizers had prepared this, like the cost, accommodation and the security during the festival.
For completeness of the festival, organizers had provided 150 thousand or even tons of tomatoes, performing arts (music, parades and dances), as well as fireworks, show a week before the event began. Meanwhile, on the night before the festival, the participants included women joining the paella cooking contest. I heard the cost of this festival up to £ 90.000. Once the tomato festival began, every man who was joining this festival must remove their shirts, and the women were allowed to wear little open clothes.
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Comments
Very informative! I love the pictures you put!
I actually do not like tomatoes very much. I'm not sure why, just don't like them but as for the sake of health, got to start liking them. And thanks for the info.
Wow, I just love tomato's did you know that in some states here. It is still tough to get enough produce in and people go without good tomato's for awhile. I know, I'v lived in these places. Such as Alaska and even Northern parts of Eastern Oregon too.Anyway it makes you really not take for granted when you do have them, I can tell you that. Very informative HUB, and funny too. Love the tomato festival, I'v watched it on t.v. but somehow this was even more fun seeing it here.
awesome hub about tomatoes. We love tomatoes..
I love to eat tomatoes and agree that they are really good for you. But, I have to say I was fascinated by the Tomato Throwing Festival.
Hello my friend I love tomatoes they are great. A very beautiful hub. You make the tomato so much more appealing.I voted this article up and awesome.
Sweet wishes Rhonda
Hi Prasetio, what a very informative hub about tomatoes. I love to eat raw tomatoes rather than cooked ones. However, I heard there are more vitamins in cooked ones. Thanks for your great hub, my friend:) Have a nice day....
Great hub, as usual my friend! I agree with William F. Torpey, that many of the tomatoes that you get these days have little taste to them. My wife is a farm girl, and says that it is because they are picked way in advance and not allowed to ripen on the vine.
This is great, I love tomatoes, tomatoes are my favorite vegetable, I love vine ripe tomatoes fresh from my garden. It's the time of year to start thinking about growing tomatoes.
I am now craving a fresh red tomato. As always you've delivered a wonderful web experience. I'm so happy it is on one of my favorite things, tomatoes!
Love, Peace and Joy, Katie
Thank you for an interesting artucle about the humble tomato.
Prasetio, I will never think of a tomato in the same way again! Your hubs are always so informational and fun too! I love tomatoes and never realized how good they were for me. I think I eat them every other day. The festival looks like a lot of fun but I think I'd rather watch! I rated you up and awesome! Thanks for such great information and such wonderful hubs! Peach and love my friend!
Hiya Prasetio, another awesome hub. I agree tomatoes are good for us and lots of health benefits. I love your tomato hub and all the pictures. The pictures in La Tomatina Festivals are so much fun.. they look like they are having a great time. Thumbs up and awesome!
Have a nice day,
Rosie
Hi, I love tomatoes! this is great! I would love to go to this festival and throw tomatoes! it reminds me of summer! hope you are safe and well in your part of the world? take care, nell
I love Tomatoes and the festival looks like great fun!
Tomatoes, along with potatoes, are my favorite food, prasetio30. However, I have been unable to find tomatoes that taste like tomatoes for more than a decade. The ones I get here in the New York metropolitan area taste like wax -- even those from my friends' gardens. I'm sure it's because somebody's playing with the DNA to make the tomatoes meaty so they can be shipped without damage. It's a shame.
I love tomatoes. Are buying the ones with the vines on them lasts longer in the fridge?
I love all things tomato, especially this hub! Excellent read!
It's a really good hub, but my vote goes to it being a fruit.
Prasetio, Terrific hub on tomatoes! Wow! They really do have many great healthy benefits! The Tomato Festival looks quite interesting as well! Thank you as always for sharing such creative and innovative topics!
Congratulations on your score of 100 as well! Peace & Blessings! God Bless YOU!
All of the photos you inserted into this everything about tomatoes hub looked so yummy! Good thing we recently finished lunch or I would be hungry. We had some tomatoes with our eggs for breakfast this morning. Love them! Generally we eat the ripe kind, but have you ever tried fried green tomatoes? They are good also. Voted up, useful and beautiful, Prasetio.
Pras, I enjoyed this very much, I voted you up on every button. As usual, my nephew you have picked a grand topic, it seems that I saw this tomato festival when I had television, it looks like more fun than "running with bulls" safer too! I have planted early this year and two plants of cherry tomatoes much smaller but I like them cold from the refrigerated bowl they are good to eat like candy. I eat a lot of tomato products and love Ice cold tomato juice blended with habenaro peppers that make it spicey, in the summer it seems to quench mt thirst faster than a gallon of water. So much to say I'll stop here. Great topic and writing I always enjoy, thank you! Much peace and love, dusty
Love the photos!
It's that time of year to start growing the nice fresh tomatoes. Maybe I can grow enough and have a tomato festival - that really looks like fun. Thanks a million for the info and all those photos! Yay!
Rated up!
Outstanding hub, Everything About Tomatoes. Check it Out!
One thing is for sure, one person's fruit, is another person's vegetable.
Tomato with onion on toast, now that sounds like a great sandwich, I simply must try.
Thanks for all the fun facts on just how good tomatoes are for a healthy diet, I love to grow them in my vegetable garden. Oops, maybe I should say, fruit and vegetable garden, ha, ha.
Never the less, great hub, vote up and useful.
Thanks again for the great content. Mike
Tomatoes any way you cut them, slice them, are still at the top of my list of great foods. Loved the Festival pictures, thats crazy.
The tomato festival is intriguing and it made me smile! :)
Hello, my friend - Thank you for writing such a fantastic hub on tomatoes. I am a tomatoe lover and can't get enough of these red, juicy, healthy and versatile fruit. The pictures make my mouth water! You have done it again - another outstanding hub by my friend, Prasetio! God bless you.
I like the tomato festival. They all look like they're having so much fun. Tomatoes are one of my favorite foods and you are one of my favorite hub friends! Tee hee
Regarding the tomato - is it a fruit or a vegetable? controversy, a tomato is technically the fruit of the tomato plant, but it is used as a vegetable in savory cooking.
Although I am not that fond of tomatoes per se, I do like pizza and spaghetti which are made with tomato sauce. So I am a sort of tomato-lover. Thanks for the interesting facts, pras, and the wild tomato festival photos.
Love, love, love tomatoes and cook with them quite a bit. Still trying to grow some in this winter wilderness...we live in the high mountain desert and it still can freeze in July and August so it's killed my poor plants now a couple of times...but I'm gonna try again!
Great hub as always, Prasetio!
I wanna be that girl swimming in the tomatoes!!! That would be much healthier that the chocolate bath discussed in one of your previous hubs, right? Great job Prasetio, enjoy your writing!
Tomatoes are one of my favorite veg, Nice to know they are so good for you. Thank's
Cheers
Hello Prasetio,
I love tomatoes as well.:) We have a big garden that we start in the spring and we make sure we have plenty of tomatoes. They actually grew through December this past year. Thank you for all the information concerning the healthy aspects of tomatoes.
Great Hub!
Sunnie
A wonderful hub from you Prasetio about tomatoes. I didn’t know about all those health benefits but I eat tomatoes regularly and grow them myself during summer! Thanks for this informative and great hub! Voted up!
You've taken the humble tomato to the limit. How creative! I miss those home-grown summer tomatoes! I think it's the best thing about our hot summers in Atlanta. This was so much fun to read what with all the festive photos, I had to rate it "funny" :)
This is a great hub and a fun hub, love the picture my dear friend. Yes, Tomatoes are the best and I eat them all the time. Awesome and I rate this up up up love & peace darski
Prasetio, thumbs up for the greatest hub ever written about tomatoes. Just one query – as far as I know tomato is a fruit and not a vegetable. I’m a bit confused now! Whatever, tomatoes are healthy and delicious with or without salt and peper and also with sugar, cooked or uncooked... I love tomatoes!
Yes, my first thought was the fruit thing too, but I would never consider it a fruit personally and wow do I love tomatoes, it is in so many of my dishes and I plan to plant some this summer too, I didn't last year because people around town grow and sell them but I just couldn't find many at all. Nothing like a big slice of red tomato on a sanwich and I always once a summer allow myself bacon gravy and red ripe tomatoes on that are fantastic. Now you have gone and made everyone hungry Pras...great hub!
Great hub! I thought I knew a lot about tomatoes - turns out I didn't know it all:-). Thanks and you have made me glad I love them!
Tomatoes are a favorite garden vegetable to grow here in Louisiana,thanks for Sharing Prasetio.;)
I love tomatoes and I love this juicy delicious hub!
I have always loved tomatoes. One of my favorite sandwiches is tomato with onion slices on toasted bread. I probably eat tomatoes in some form everyday. Excellent Hub! Voted up and awesome!
Love that tomato festival. I want to do that. A real tomato is sooooooo good. Thanks for the nutritious information.
Rated up of course!
Great Hub on Tomatoes prasetio, I was not aware of the so many healthy benefits. I have never been a big fan of most tomatoes, but the past few year I have been growing some heirlooms and really enjoy the purple tomatoes, check these tomatoes out- http://www.purensimplegarden.com/2010/03/purple-to...
Voted up and awesome my friend, God bless!
Such a wonderful fruit! We have lived on it. There is nothing like that first fresh tomato sandwich of the season! Beautifully done nephew!
Very good, my friend. I found myself wondering about something I had read of the tomato. Was it not technically classified as a "fruit" at some time in our past? Maybe it was just a dream but I seem to recall that. Thanks for sharing some healthy news! WB
Great hub. I too love tomatoes.
Awesome hub Prasetio. I love tomatoes and in a couple of months I'll be growing my own again. Excellent and well put together my friend. Peace!! Tom
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