1、 Many Italian delicacies adopt tomatoes as materials very often ,which gives people a wrong idea that tomatoes has come from Europe. Actually, Mexico is the place of origin of tomatoes and Columbus is the first one who has brought tomato seeds to Europe.

2、Eating tomatoes often can reduce wound infection, because they contain abundant antioxidants.

3、Eating Tomatoes often can effectively prevent prostate cancer, colon cancer and pancreatic cancer.

4、Organic tomatoes contain lycopene many times than those of ordinary tomatoes

5、Tomatoes possess the function of stablizing blood sugar and cholesterol, because tomatoes are an vital source of dietary fibre.

6、The colors of tomatoes can be red, yellow, orange, green, purple. However, there is no blue tomato.

7、Canned tomato juice has higher rnutritional value than fresh tomatoes. The reason is that fresh tomatoes sold in the market are almost picked for sale when they have not got ripe yet. tomato juice,however,

is always processed and made using totally ripe tomatoes. In addition, through 100 degrees of high-temperature sterilization, canned tomato juice is suitable to drink for people of all physical characteristics.

1.意大利美食善用西红柿，让人误以为西红柿源自欧洲。其实，它的原产地是墨西哥，哥伦布第一次把西红柿的种子带到欧洲。

2.多吃西红柿能减少伤口感染，因为富含抗氧化剂。

3.西红柿预防前列腺癌、结肠癌和胰腺癌，作用最明显。

4.有机西红柿比普通西红柿所含的番茄红素高很多倍。

5.西红柿有稳定血糖和胆固醇的功效，因为西红柿是膳食纤维的重要来源。

6.西红柿的颜色分为红、黄、橙、绿、紫，但是没有蓝色。

7. 罐装的番茄汁要比新鲜的西红柿营养价值高。因为市售的新鲜西红柿都是在它尚未成熟时摘下，而制番茄汁的西红柿则是熟透转红后才摘下加工的。此外，罐装的番茄汁经过100℃的高温杀菌，适合任何体质的人饮用。