Tomato is known as a vegetable. But in reality tomato belongs to a citrus fruit. French considered tomato as “pommes d’amour” meaning “love apples”. The English word tomato comes from the Spanish word “tomate” that derived from the Aztec language “Nahuati”. Did you know that tomato contains O grams of fat, and it is also a good source of vitamin C. Aside from that, tomatoes can be use in three different ways.
1. Tomato as a raw food. – Tomato is always used in salad and sandwiches. A vegetable salad is not complete without a tomato. In every kind of sandwiches, tomato is used as one of the toppings. It is also a Filipino tradition that tomato is a perfect partner of a salted egg. Most of the time, tomato is also used as a side dish or a part of presentation of a certain dish.
2. Tomato as ingredients. – Because of wonderful sweetness of tomato, it is usually used as part of ingredients in different dishes. Tomato was always sauté with onions and garlic that served as spices. Once tomato is chopped and cooked you cannot almost see it on a dish but the sweet taste of it remains.
3. Tomato as a juice. – People who are health conscious drink tomato juice. The tomato juice helps our body to improve our digestion. The lycopene of tomato help us to prevent cancer. Because tomato is also an antioxidant protection, it helps us to have a better skin and a healthy hair. The tomato juice also helps the body to detoxify to remain in a healthy state.
Tomato is a kind of food that is healthy and useful. Either it is cooked or not, a lot of people eat this vegetable. It is also great for us to drink its juice because it can give us good benefits for our body.
