Tomato, also known as tomato, is an annual Solanaceae herb. It is sour and sweet, delicious and nutritious. According to scientific analysis, tomatoes contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins VB, VC, and inorganic salts such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, iron, and phosphorus that are indispensable to the human body. The motherland medicine thinks: The tomato is slightly sweet and sour, and enters the stomach. It has the effect of cough and spleen, digestion of stomach and digestion, and lowering of blood pressure. The latest research shows that tomatoes have the most significant preventive effect on prostate cancer, lung cancer, and gastric cancer, and they also have effects on pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer, oral cancer, breast cancer, and uterine cancer. The anti-aging and anti-cancer effects of tomato are mainly manifested in the following aspects:
1. Tomato contains lycopene It is a natural pigment component that is chemically structurally carotenoid. It is an antioxidant and has many functions such as anti-oxidation, anti-aging, inhibition of mutations, reduction of cardiovascular diseases and prevention of cancer. Epidemiological investigations and many animal experiments have shown that lycopene does have the effect of preventing and suppressing malignant tumors. Lycopene can shrink tumors and delay spread, helping people fight prostate cancer. A study by researchers at Harvard University in the United States showed that eating tomatoes can reduce the risk of prostate cancer in men. The report said that men who eat tomato food 10 times a week will reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 45%. After investigating 46 types of vegetables and fruits, the researchers found that only tomato and straw have a protective effect on the male prostate. The researchers had some participants eat 4-7 times a week tomatoes, their risk of prostate cancer decreased by 20%. Those who are more than 10 times a week are down by 45%. A medical institute in Japan surveyed four regions with different gastric cancer incidence rates to determine the levels of vitamins VA, VC, VE and B-carotene and lycopene in the plasma of residents and found that the higher the concentration of lycopene, gastric cancer The lower the incidence rate. Scientists use modern technology to prove that lycopene can quench singlet oxygen and trap peroxide radicals both physically and chemically. Although most carotenoids are effective antioxidants, lycopene has the strongest activity in quenching singlet oxygen. One of the important mechanisms of tumorigenesis is that the tissue cells undergo gene mutation under the action of external mutagens. Lycopene can block this process and exert its anticancer effect.
2. Tomatoes are rich in vitamin VC
Vitamin VC plays an important role in regulating the physiological functions of the body. Vitamin VC can maintain the normal physiological functions of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles; it is beneficial to the production of antibodies in the body and increase the body's resistance to infections; vitamin VC can improve lipid metabolism, protect cardiovascular function, prevent arteriosclerosis; vitamin Vc Anti-lipid peroxidation and elimination of free radicals, blocking the formation of nitrogen-nitrite limbs and preventing the release of hyaluronidase in the body, vitamin Vc has anti-aging, resistance, prevention and treatment of cancer. However, vitamin VC has a strong reduction, and is easily affected by temperature, pH, light and other factors. It is easy to break under alkaline conditions and is stable under acidic conditions, while tomato is rich in citric acid, malic acid, vitamin Vc is protected in this acidic environment, so the loss is less when cooking, under the same conditions The retention rate of vitamin Vc in tomatoes is much higher than that of other vegetables.
3. Glutathione contained in tomatoes has anti-cancer and anti-aging effects. Tomatoes also contain a substance that inhibits tyrosinase activity, which can reduce or eliminate skin pigmentation, and prevent the occurrence of butterfly and elderly lice. Formed, so tomatoes are a good beauty vegetable.
In addition, tomatoes also have a very important therapeutic effect. Vitamin Vc and vitamin VA help reduce the risk of cancer, and folic acid can prevent heart disease and other diseases. Vitamin VP can protect blood vessels and prevent hypertension. VPP can maintain the normal secretion of gastric juice and promote the formation of red blood cells. Lycopene has diuretic and assists digestion and is particularly beneficial to patients with kidney disease. Therefore, long-term consumption of tomatoes and their products can effectively prevent cancer.
1. Tomato contains lycopene It is a natural pigment component that is chemically structurally carotenoid. It is an antioxidant and has many functions such as anti-oxidation, anti-aging, inhibition of mutations, reduction of cardiovascular diseases and prevention of cancer. Epidemiological investigations and many animal experiments have shown that lycopene does have the effect of preventing and suppressing malignant tumors. Lycopene can shrink tumors and delay spread, helping people fight prostate cancer. A study by researchers at Harvard University in the United States showed that eating tomatoes can reduce the risk of prostate cancer in men. The report said that men who eat tomato food 10 times a week will reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 45%. After investigating 46 types of vegetables and fruits, the researchers found that only tomato and straw have a protective effect on the male prostate. The researchers had some participants eat 4-7 times a week tomatoes, their risk of prostate cancer decreased by 20%. Those who are more than 10 times a week are down by 45%. A medical institute in Japan surveyed four regions with different gastric cancer incidence rates to determine the levels of vitamins VA, VC, VE and B-carotene and lycopene in the plasma of residents and found that the higher the concentration of lycopene, gastric cancer The lower the incidence rate. Scientists use modern technology to prove that lycopene can quench singlet oxygen and trap peroxide radicals both physically and chemically. Although most carotenoids are effective antioxidants, lycopene has the strongest activity in quenching singlet oxygen. One of the important mechanisms of tumorigenesis is that the tissue cells undergo gene mutation under the action of external mutagens. Lycopene can block this process and exert its anticancer effect.
2. Tomatoes are rich in vitamin VC
Vitamin VC plays an important role in regulating the physiological functions of the body. Vitamin VC can maintain the normal physiological functions of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles; it is beneficial to the production of antibodies in the body and increase the body's resistance to infections; vitamin VC can improve lipid metabolism, protect cardiovascular function, prevent arteriosclerosis; vitamin Vc Anti-lipid peroxidation and elimination of free radicals, blocking the formation of nitrogen-nitrite limbs and preventing the release of hyaluronidase in the body, vitamin Vc has anti-aging, resistance, prevention and treatment of cancer. However, vitamin VC has a strong reduction, and is easily affected by temperature, pH, light and other factors. It is easy to break under alkaline conditions and is stable under acidic conditions, while tomato is rich in citric acid, malic acid, vitamin Vc is protected in this acidic environment, so the loss is less when cooking, under the same conditions The retention rate of vitamin Vc in tomatoes is much higher than that of other vegetables.
3. Glutathione contained in tomatoes has anti-cancer and anti-aging effects. Tomatoes also contain a substance that inhibits tyrosinase activity, which can reduce or eliminate skin pigmentation, and prevent the occurrence of butterfly and elderly lice. Formed, so tomatoes are a good beauty vegetable.
In addition, tomatoes also have a very important therapeutic effect. Vitamin Vc and vitamin VA help reduce the risk of cancer, and folic acid can prevent heart disease and other diseases. Vitamin VP can protect blood vessels and prevent hypertension. VPP can maintain the normal secretion of gastric juice and promote the formation of red blood cells. Lycopene has diuretic and assists digestion and is particularly beneficial to patients with kidney disease. Therefore, long-term consumption of tomatoes and their products can effectively prevent cancer.