exactly HOW healthy are tomatoes?

Question

i love them and eat a tomato every day, just as a snack.. are they good for you? are they good for diets?

Answer 1

definitly good for you. tomatoes are considered a 'good for lungs' fruit. they help reduce respiritory complications. They also have a good ammount of potassium in them as well as vitimin a and c and also iron! They are full of anti oxidants which help your immune system fight off infection, and they also have beta carotine that research has found to reduce your risk of getting cancer.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Did you know color makes no difference in the flavor or nutritional goodness of tomatoes? You may say your tastebuds tell a different story! In fact, researchers have shown that the mind or psychology play a major role in taste and selection of tomato varieties among home gardeners. Researchers also found the primary differences in taste of tomatoes has to do with the meatiness of a tomato, the concentration of seeds and gel or juiciness of a tomato. Sweetness and acidity is also in part a result of whether a tomato variety is meaty or juicy, as well as being influenced by the number of days to maturity. The longer a tomato has to mature on the vine, the higher the sugar content can be.

Some beefsteak varieties have long been grown for their meatiness, but some beefsteaks have more seeds and gel than others do. Many pink and yellow tomato varieties are meatier and have fewer seeds and less gel, giving them a milder taste. Plum and pear tomatoes, developed more than a century ago in Italy, have firm flesh with few seeds and gel, and cook down to a thick paste or sauce.

Tomato color depends on varying amounts of carotene pigments in their flesh and skin. Most tomatoes are high in lycopene, the pigment that makes tomatoes red. Tomatoes also have varying proportions of betacarotene, the yellow-orange pigment found in carrots and other orange vegetables. Red tomatoes can range in color from deep purple, fiery red to pink. And yellow tomatoes range from orange to lemon yellow and even white. Though pigment determines color, no variety is healthier for you than another.

If a typical, medium-sized tomato carried the nutrition information required on packaged food labels, it would read as follows:

Servings per tomato: 1 Carbohydrate: 5.8 g

Calories: 27 Fat: 0.2 g

Protein: 1.4 g Sodium: 4 mg



Vitamin A: 1110 iu 20%*

Vitamin C: 28 mg 45%*

Thiamin: 0.07 mg 4% *

Riboflavin: 0.05 mg 2%*

Niacin: 0.9 mg 4%*

Calcium: 16 mg <2%*

Iron: 0.6 mg 4%*

Potassium: 300 mg



reff:http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/specialty/tomatotaste.html

Answer 4

They are good for you-good for skin and loaded with Antioxidants whih protect against cancer-diets are not good but eating healthy,reducing portions,exercise works and is healhier than a diet-go off the diet you'll gain all weight back and more.

Answer 5

Tomatoes are very good for preventing cancer, when cooked. It's actually the only food that gains health benefits from cooking.

But they have many other things that are good for you raw as well.

Answer 6

You should eat several large tomatoes per day. They are EXTREMELY healthful for the body in so many respect. Can't list them all. make tomato sandwiches, eat more of them.

Answer 7

They are rich in Vitamin C. Eating one is better than a glass of orange juice. They also have some nice fiber content too.

Answer 8

I love tomatoes too but too much of any type food that will rot in your stomach is not good.

Answer 9

they are a good anti-oxident, and they tast great!!!10 million really old italians can't all be wrong...

Answer 10

there'll real good for you .they help protect the body against skin
cancer