Heart Disease Symptoms

Tomatoes – are they fruits or vegetables?

According to the dictionary, tomatoes are fruits because they contain seeds.

Eating tomatoes have many medical benefits, like lowering cholesterol, supporting the immune system, reducing the risk of heart disease and combating cancers such as:
Breast, cervical, colon, esophagus, pharynx, prostate, mouth, rectum and stomach cancer.

Can tomatoes prevent or treat all these ailments? Yes. The reason is because tomatoes are made up mostly of water. Their nutrients include vitamin A and C, traces of several other vitamins, beta carotene, small amount of iron, other minerals, a little fiber and a very small amount of protein.

Like all fruits and vegetables, tomatoes contain a tiny amount of fat, but no cholesterol.

Well, if you want to lower your cholesterol and prevent other ailments why not start eating good, delicious and natural tomatoes to start lowering your ‘bad’ ldl cholesterol.

Do you know that eating your tomatoes can lower your cholesterol level in your blood? I didn’t know until I read an article about them. This is because tomatoes contain lycopene and it is this substance that give them the color.

Besides, tomatoes come with vitamin A and natural fiber. It is also good for the prevention of prostate problem in men.

A study also found that women with high blood lycopene levels had a reduction in heart disease. In the research, scientists gave half their subjects ketchup and the other half tomato juice. At the end of the study both group taking ketchup and tomatoe juice had their cholesterol dropped by an average of 6%.

Why not try taking more tomatoes and tomato juice. In fact there are so many different ways you can consume them.

You can eat tomatoes; canned, juiced (v-8), bottled (ketchup), fresh (tomato sandwiches… yummy!). You could eat tomatoes raw as a salad, like it’s an apple. They are delicious and healthy for you. Give them a try, see if they make a difference in your health.