If you want to be healthy, then you should always include a ripe tomato on your basket whenever you are going to the wet market.  It is better if you are going to buy it from a local farmer’s market, but if is not available then you could grab the best tomato on in the market.  It does not concern which tomato you prepare for your next dish.  The most important thing is that all tomatoes packed with phytonutrients, which are beneficial to the body.

For the last few years, there are several studies that had proven the benefit of eating tomatoes.  Tomato has a lot of lycopenes, which helps the body to stay away from diseases such as cancer.

According to the Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention published an analysis of 21 studies, eating tomatoes helps the body to avoid the risk of getting prostate cancer and other forms of cancers.  It would be more effective if the tomatoes got  cooked when eaten.  Raw tomatoes reduce the risk of having cancer to 11 percent, while cooked tomatoes lessen the chances of getting cancer by 19 percent.  Eating a few raw tomatoes also reduces the chance by 3 percent.

If you want to better absorb the lycopene, then add  tomato on  food that has a lot of fats on it. Perhaps, eating a burger filled with fat would be great to your next meal.  As much as possible, choose a tomato that is free, from chemicals.

Not only that tomato  filled with phytochemical they also packed the antioxidant vitamin C as well as beta carotene.  Just one mug of fresh tomato is going to provide you with almost 58% of the daily value for vitamin C, 22% of the DV for vitamin A, and around 8% of the DV for fiber.  Tomato also has potassium, niacin, B6, and folate. The next time that you are going to eat, try to remember to include some tomato on your diet, as it would help in protecting your heart from a heart disease.  Potassium helps in reducing blood pressure and the threat of heart disease, while B6 and folate decreases the levels of the risky chemical homocysteine in the blood.  A study in the Journal of Nutrition, discovered that women, who a lot of tomatoes had a reduced risk of heart disease.  This 4.8 year, prospective case-controlled test, got around 40,000 middle-aged and elderly women to participate in the health study.  Researcher manages to find out that as the women’s blood levels of lycopene raised, the chances for cardiovascular disease also dropped.