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Question by amp: What are some of the nutritional values of tomatoes?
This includes your basic red tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and yellow tomatoes. I recently started growing a garden that is just full of them this summer and was just curious about their nuturional value, I know their taste value is definatly up there though because the ones I am growing pretty much just rock.
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Answer by Laissez_Faire
They have vitamin C in them.
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What Are the Nutritional Benefits of Tomatoes and Morning Star Tomato Products?
Nutrition:
One medium fresh tomato provides 47% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of vitamin C, and 22% of the RDA of vitamin A. The tomato ranks #1 among vegetables in nutrient contribution to diet in the United States. Here are some more numbers
Health Benefits
Recent scientific studies(2) suggest that eating cooked tomatoes reduces one’s likelihood of suffering from cholesterol-related heart problems and digestive tract cancers. Why cooked tomatoes? cooking tomatoes releases lycopene(3), a strong antioxidant that gives tomatoes their red color. Lycopene helps release free radicals from the body (free radicals are unstable oxygen molecules that have been implicated in several types of cancers and heart disease). Lycopene also may help prevent the oxidation of low-density lipoproteins, a form of cholesterol carrier in the blood that is thought to be a cause of heart disease
Well, according to the Centrum ads, tomatoes have Lutein which is good for the eyes. Tomatoes are also:
-high in vitamin C
-high in vitamin A
-high in antioxidants
THEY MAKE YOU CRAP ALOT
Vitamin C
they are a natural source of lycopene, as are many tomato by-products such as ketchup and spaghetti sauce
http://www.nutritiondata.com/foods-tomato000000000000000000000.html
All I know is that Tomatos have a lot of Vitamin C and E, which help to make up Antioxidants. Antioxidants are said to reduce the risk of many types of cancer by helping to eliminate “Free Radicals” in your body, which often come from incomplete oxygen molecules (O2) that have been damaged.