Tomatoes, also known as love apples, have a sweet and sour taste and are loved by people of all ages. Today, let's talk about the taboos of eating tomatoes, hoping to be helpful to everyone.
Taboos of Eating Tomatoes
1. Not suitable to eat raw
Especially for people with weak spleen and stomach, and for women during their menstrual period. Tomatoes contain a large amount of soluble astringents and other components, which react with stomach acid to form insoluble lumps, easily causing discomfort symptoms such as bloating and pain in the stomach and intestines. If you only eat tomatoes as a fruit to supplement vitamin C, or to relieve summer heat, then eating them raw is the best choice.
2. Not suitable to eat on an empty stomach
When the stomach is empty, the secretion of gastric acid increases. Because a certain chemical substance in tomatoes combines with gastric acid to easily form insoluble lumps, eating it often causes abdominal pain and causes discomfort, bloating, and pain in the stomach.
3. Not suitable to eat unripe green tomatoes
Because they contain toxic solanine. Eating unripe green tomatoes will taste bitter. If eaten in large quantities, it can lead to poisoning in severe cases, with symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, general discomfort, vomiting, and general fatigue. In severe cases, it can be life-threatening.
4. Not suitable for long-term high-temperature heating
Because lycopene is easily decomposed by light, heat, and oxygen, losing its health benefits. Therefore, cooking should avoid long-term high-temperature heating.
5. Not suitable to eat with cucumbers
Cucumbers contain a vitamin C decomposing enzyme that will destroy the vitamin C in other vegetables. Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C. If the two are eaten together, the effect of supplementing nutrition cannot be achieved.
6. Not suitable to eat when taking anticoagulant drugs such as heparin and coumarin
Tomatoes contain a relatively large amount of vitamin K. Vitamin K mainly catalyzes the synthesis of prothrombin and thromboplastin in the liver. When vitamin K is insufficient, it will prolong clotting time, causing subcutaneous and muscle bleeding.