Tomatoes come from tropical America, grown as fruit crops in fields, yards, or found wild at an altitude of 1-1600 m above sea level. This plant can not stand the rain, blazing sunshine, and wants a loose and fertile soil. Terna this year grows upright or leaning on other plants, height 0.5-2.5 m, branched a lot, hairy, and smelling strong. Round stems, thickened in his books, haired rough green whitish color. Compound leaf pinnate, elongated location, bundartelurs shape lengthwise, pointed tip, rounded base, large leaf curvature of curved edge, a smaller piece of jagged edges, 10-40 cm long, light green color. Compound flowers, gathered in a series of clusters, stemmed, star-shaped crown, yellow color. The fruit is buns, fleshy, the skin is thinly shiny, varied in shape and size, yellow or red. Many seeds, flat, yellow brown color. Tomato fruit can be eaten directly, made juice, tomato sauce, cooked, made sambal goreng, or made pickled tomatoes. Shoots or young leaves can be crawled. Tomatoes are common in the market form round. Large, thick fleshy, slightly seeded, and red is called a fruit tomato. Tomatoes of this type usually eaten fresh as a fruit. The smaller ones are known as vegetable tomatoes because they are used in cooking. The small ones as big as marbles are called cherry tomatoes and are used to mix make chili or in lettuce dish.
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Tomato fruit is sweet, sour, slightly cold. Efficacious to relieve thirst, intestinal antiseptic, mild laxative (laxative), increase appetite by multiplying the release of saliva, stimulate the release of gastric enzymes, and the flow of bile into the intestine. Leaves are efficacious conditioning. PHARMACOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND RESEARCH RESULTS In rats, tomato juice can lower high serum cholesterol levels and reduce the amount of cholesterol in the liver. In cats, tomato syrup can lower blood pressure without disturbing the heart rate and stimulate smooth muscle. In animal experiments, tomatine is efficacious anti-inflammatory and decreases the permeability of blood vessels. Tomatine is effective to inhibit the growth of fungus in the human body. Research in America, men who ate at least ten servings of tomatoes cooked in a week will lower the risk of prostate cancer by 45%. This is possible because of lycopene, carotene in tomatoes that are believed to prevent the occurrence of tumors and reduce the risk of heart disease.
