食药兼优的西红柿,由于其各种维生素含量远胜于一般蔬菜,矿物质含量较全,故而被人们誉为“美味佳品菜中果”。现代科学又进一步发现,西红柿中含丰富的类胡罗卜素——番茄红素和菌脂色素、芦丁等特殊的营养成分,这些成分对抗癌、防血栓具有特殊功能。如番茄红素可使肿瘤缩小,癌变不易扩散,对多种癌症有预防作用。柏林分子生物和生物化学学院的专家门指出,西红柿中的菌脂色素有防癌 Food and medicine and good tomatoes, because of its various vitamins far better than the average amount of vegetables, more mineral content, it was hailed as “delicious Jiapin vegetables.” Modern science further found that tomatoes are rich in carotenoids - lycopene and lipids, rutin and other special nutrients, these ingredients on cancer, anti-thrombosis has a special function. Such as lycopene can shrink the tumor, cancer is not easy to spread, have a preventive effect on a variety of cancers. Experts at the Berlin Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry point out that there are anti-cancer lipids in tomato