Food value "Tomato"

Natural Benefit and Curative Properties
   The tomato is one of the most powerful deobstruents of the material medica. It remove diseases particle and open natural channel of the body, it is gentle natural stimulant for kidney and help to wash away the toxin which causes diseases and contaminate our system. They are at their best when they are fully ripe, their vitamin C content increase as they ripen.  Tomato juice is probably one of the most widely used juice. Fresh, raw tomato is most beneficial and has a alkaline reaction, when digested, in concentrate form. Tomato has an external application can be used as a cosmetic. Its pulp should be applied liberally on the face and left there for an hour and then wash with worm water. Repeated daily, it will give good complexion and remove ugly-looking pimple in a short time.



Acidosis
    The tomato is essentially an alkaline vegetable. Its acid taste is due to malic acid which is about 0.5%. It also contains 0.25-1.81% citric acid and only a trace of oxalic acid
    These acid in tomatoes, in combination with sodium or potassium either from from sodium or potassium acid malate, citrate or oxalate. Their end products, when oxidized in the body, are  carbon dioxide, water and the carbonate of potassium and sodium. The later has alkaline reaction. Tomatoes, thus leave an alkaline ash in the process of the blood and such as phosphates, Urea and ammonia. It is, therefore, highly beneficial in the treatment of acidosis and other diseases associated with too much acid in the system.