Love fruit tomato - only red is healthy

Do you know that one 50 gram tomato contains about 12 milligrams of vitamin C, about the same amount a medium sized apple has?

You can truly change the proverb to 'One tomato a day keeps the doctor away'.

The very best of a tomato is lycopene, an 'ingredient' that promotes your body's own defense, reduces cancer risks and helps prevent coronary and circulation problems.

For all lovers of 'Heinz' tomato based ketch-ups (it certainly applies to Kraft's and others as well), the lycopene stuff obviously works better in that kind of state for our body than from the pure tomato itself.

Pure tomatoes contain about 94 per cent water and only have 17 calories per 100 grams - for a perfect healthy diet, a great basis.

The tomatoes should be really red and ripe- don't take those that are still partly green. You'll get head and stomach aches due to the toxic solanine. If you wanna accelerate the tomatoes' color and maturity put apples and tomatoes side by side on the sill and let apples' ethylene do the work.

Enjoy.

Useful links:

http://www.3dchem.com/molecules.asp?ID=103

http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/DietandNutrition/lycopene

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12424330

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine