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If you purely from the perspective of nutrition and health care, human completely without salt. We already know that the ancestors of humans and mammals are not salt, but physical health, and able to evolve. Last month, I go to the world's longevity in Bama study found that where the centenarians often cooking with water, very little salt. Our bodies do need sodium, but every day, adults only
1 gram or so, that is sufficient to add from the urine, faeces, sweat and breath discharge of sodium. The natural food is already rich in sodium, and the ratio of sodium and potassium is very suitable for human needs, potassium sodium for more than several times, with an average of about 10 times. For example, every 100 grams of carrots contain 70 milligrams of sodium and 190 mg of potassium, per 100 grams of seaweed containing 710 milligrams of sodium and 1770 mg of potassium. According to the Chinese Nutrition Society estimates, China's daily sodium intake from the food itself has reached about 1 gram.

After cooking in salt, we learned from a serious dietary intake of sodium exceeded, leading to a serious imbalance in the proportion of sodium and potassium. The Chinese are the world's most particular about color, smell, taste ethnic, dietary sodium is estimated at over 10 times more potassium! Potassium and sodium are the most important body electrolytes and potassium in the detail within the work, sodium in detail to work together to maintain the body's metabolic balance. Too much sodium can cause the body water, resulting in edema, bags under the eyes and high blood pressure problems, which happens to be the Chinese people's common diseases.

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In my small, the happiest thing in the mutton soup Letting Them coriander, drink mouthful fragrance, Qin Yu V to its taste inferior to kiss. The pure flavor of meat is too greasy, and debauchery, after adding coriander oil but not greasy taste has become, put instead of swing.

Chinese people have called tomato tomato, that it is external. Tomato was originally from South America, Peru's largest wild tomato species, and now there is still more than eight. Columbus discovered the New World, the tomato was introduced to Europe in the sixteenth century, Asian countries, 17-18 century and introduced to China from Europe. Come to the West, the shape of persimmon, therefore called "tomato."

Europeans were mainly used for ornamental tomato, rather than for cooking. Because by then the northerners that the tomato poisonous, and even toxic. They tomato and Solanaceae in henbane, poison and other toxic plants Mandragora equivalent. Germany and France just to tomato is called "wolf peach", as we have China's "Wolf poisonous weeds," the same, meaning that it can only serve as a drug, not as food.
Legend has a young French painter, first written a will, it was decided a taste of tomato flavor. Eat tomatoes, he was lying in a coffin, the result of what did not happen. Later, people gradually love to eat tomatoes, and made into a variety of delicious looking food. In this regard, the world no one can exceed the Italians. They have the legacy of ancient Roman palace cuisine, very particular about food, good cooking. Italians refer to tomatoes as "golden fruit", meals are without it. No tomatoes, no Borscht, no more than Shasa cake, no pasta, no salads, no Italian food.

In the United States, as people imported vegetables such as tomato consumption growth, Congress in 1883 passed an act to impose 10% import tariffs on vegetables. A few years later, a businessman that tomatoes are fruit, so do not need to pay import duties and put the U.S. government to resort to the Supreme Court. Finally, the Supreme Court, tomatoes are fruits, although the academic, but in life are vegetables, like cucumber and radish, as traders dismissed this request.

In Hong Kong, when I once went to a friend's house guest, enjoy a lot of authentic Italian delicacies. My friend's wife is a beautiful and virtuous of the Italian. She had just returned from home has brought many local specialties, there are a variety of tomato sauce, pasta, bacon and cheese and so on.
Like Italy, the Mediterranean people like to eat tomatoes, onions, garlic, olive oil and deep-sea fish. Mediterranean Mediterranean diet is an important reason for longevity, the traditional Mediterranean diet nurtured the great Roman Empire and the Greek civilization. Of course, the Mediterranean diet's health care role is not accidental.
In 1995, a study found that regular consumption of tomatoes (especially tomato sauce) recipients, reduce the incidence of prostate cancer by 45%. Even those who have already got prostate cancer, cancer can be reduced or brought under control. Scientists have discovered that the role of tomato lycopene ingredient mainly. Lycopene not only makes tomatoes red, and the protection of tomato, resistance to free radical and microbial attacks. Similarly, lycopene can help the body fight free radicals. Thus, lycopene is an antioxidant, and its strength is beta - carotene, more than 10 times.

Later, more studies have found that lycopene may help combat lung cancer, stomach, colon and breast cancer

Other kinds of cancer. Regular consumption of a large number of tomato food, can make you have the chance of cancer reduced by 40% or so. The lowest level of lycopene in vivo storage of smokers, the probability of cancer is four times the highest. In addition, lycopene also helps to reduce blood lipid, to protect islets and improve immunity.
Scientists also found that eating cooked tomato lycopene is obtained when the raw food about 2 times; cooked food together with fats such as olive oil, lycopene intake can be achieved when the pure raw food is about 4 times. This is partly because of lycopene are carotenoids, and beta - carotene, they are only soluble in fat, but not soluble in water.

On the other hand, with food is similar to tomato lectin and inhibitor containing enzyme agent. Their protective effects of tomato, you can prevent it from decomposing, and nutrient loss. However, this is a challenge for the body's digestive system; our stomach is difficult to absorb raw tomatoes in the decomposition of the lectin, especially the A, B blood type two kinds of people. This seems to be explained: Why do people think of early tomatoes poisonous. Heating element and resistance to enzyme digestion cohesion agent, thereby enhancing absorption of lycopene.

In 1994, humans first genetically modified food come out - transgenic tomato; it is not easy to become soft rot, with a long "shelf life." However, because of its potential danger to human health, it later in the United States was forced to suspend production. Today, however, China is very popular, "Joan of Fruit", a compound of transgenic technology may be called the pinnacle. For example, scientists can control the size of cherry genes into the tomato transplant years, so that the major cherry tomatoes into a small size; the Arctic fish antifreeze genes into the tomato transplant years, so that tomatoes will not be damaged by frost; the Wolf poisonous weeds in the lectin toxin transplanted into the tomato, the so insect-resistant tomato.

Insect eating genetically modified foods, it will immediately die. People will do? Although scientists are not yet, "organic food" a clear-cut rejection of genetically modified. We should be more choices of organic tomatoes, eat, such as Joan of transgenic tomato fruit, particularly pregnant women and infants.
It is said that Saint fruit from Taiwan, the natural cherry tomato varieties. This is incredible, because in addition to the Americas, the scientists found that very few other places on the planet of wild tomato. Joan of fruit may contain a double lectins, including their own and transfer genes to human digestive system produces extra challenge. If you must eat fruit Joan, it is recommended to eat cooked because the heat can be Lectin digestion, increasing intake of lycopene. (Yes, I usually stood for the complete raw fruits and vegetables, but the tomatoes (especially Joan of fruit) is the only exception.)

In order to obtain lycopene, in addition to consumption of tomatoes and their products, we can learn from watermelon, grapefruit and papaya orange-red fruits and vegetables intake. The study found that for every
100 g of lycopene content in food are as follows:

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Tomato sauce containing 8580 mg

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Watermelon contains 5400 mg

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Grapefruit containing 4100 mg

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Papaya contains 3500 mg

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Raw tomatoes contain 3100 micrograms.
Finally, we can also directly add lycopene extract; taken together with meals containing fat, the best results.