Tomatoes are very popular in my family. Mom cooks them as a vegetable, not a fruit. When I decided to lose weight, tomato soup becomes one of my best friends. Except eating bananas and drinking water, I would like to recommend my favorite dish. I eat tomato soup when I go back home in There are different names of Tomatoes― Tuh-MAY-toh, Tuh-MAH-to― all mean a delicious, nutritious fruit, more widely known as a vegetable. Tomatoes are not a kind of vegetables; they are actually a fruit, a kind of berries.
Tomatoes are easy to be planted in the garden; therefore, they are most common plants you may find in many U.S families’ garden. People can plant seeds or small tomato plants. Heirloom tomatoes are most popular among home gardeners and organic producers; they seem to resist more disease and produce very tasty, interesting fruits. There are many different tomato plants, red fruit mostly, but also ―yellow, orange, pink, purple, green and white― they are all tomatoes’ varieties.
Some facts for you to know:
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※ Joseph Campbell mass produced the first tomato soup in 1897.
※ The first recipe is credited to Maria Parloa for her tomato chowder in the book, the Appledore Cook Book, in 1872.
There are hundreds of tomato recipes for everything from tomato marmalade to fried green tomatoes, and they are good for your health. Tomatoes contain an antioxidant, excellent source of lycopene, which fights free radicals to prevent─ cancer, heart disease and premature aging─ when tomatoes have been cooked such as ketchups and tomato products. What is lycopene? Lycopene ― an antioxidant ― can fights free radicals which can potentially cause cancer, heart disease and premature aging. It commonly exists in tomatoes and carrots; it also can interfere with normal cell growth and activity.
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