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Tomato Tomato known, people like to eat.

Ripe tomatoes are rich in vitamins, carotenoids, such as malic acid and trace elements, nutritional value. Immature tomato contains many toxic substances than ─ ─ tomato base, eating can be caused by poisoning, serious cases can even cause death!

Tomato at tomatoes in the alkali content of ripe tomato with the constantly reduced to all-red tomatoes were ripe, the content of little people leave on the role of non-toxic; but immature tomato tomato base at higher levels, each 100 grams of tomato containing 58 mg, it would be poison!

If you think someone said immature fresh tomatoes would be too alarmist fatal, then, take a look at the facts: a meeting in Guangzhou Xinhua Huaxian County commune members at 20 noon collective meals, and cooking tomato immature. They do share the nine kilograms of tomatoes, cut cleaned, add sugar tablets and 0.25 kilograms of salt, oil cooking. About two hours after eating, these members has resulted in dizziness, nausea, vomiting, salivation and general symptoms such as fatigue, to 10 pm that night, a total of 17 people occurred in the same poisoning symptoms after treatment, 16 people were rescued, but there is normal body mass due to one poor person died.

Immature tomato food poisoning both dangerous, it is best not to eat on, but if we must eat, it would have to pay attention to cooking methods. First of all, we want to understand, tomato base can be dissolved in ethanol, methanol, almost insoluble in water, alkali stable, but heating in the acid hydrolysis may be to reduce toxicity, the ratio of cooked tomatoes should be add Vinegar immature. Of course it is better to eat less.

Once the tomatoes because food poisoning immature, light will be able to drink strong tea or light salt, to dessert; If severe poisoning should be immediately sent to hospital.