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Introduction

Good day to all my fellow blurtian, hope you all are doing great. The content of this post is about Tomatoes and to enlighten us more about the great uses it has to the human body and system.

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tomatoes

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tomato is an edible berry plant with the botanical name as plant Solanum lycopersicum. This plant is said to have originated from South, Central American, this plant is mostly used while cooking and it is also the main ingredient while making a soup.

Especially here in Nigeria, in most house hold, the only thing they use tomatoes for is for cooking african jollof rice or making a delicious soup with it, also the main ingredient of making stew is tomatoes, without tomatoes you can't make soup.

Uses of Tomato

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They are many uses tomato has but i will be listining some of them:

• Tomato can be eaten fresh: Eating it directly after harvesting it then washed it with clean water then it can be eaten directly,
• Tomato can be used in making soup: Infact it is the main ingredient in making a pot of soup.
• It can also be used to make fresh tomato salads: to make a tomato salad you will need other ingredients like cucumbers and other ingredients just the way you like it.
• It is also used to treat skin disease: Tomato can also be used to treat some skin diseases by rubbing it on your face daily.

Healthy benefits of Tomato

• it helps in boosting the immune system
• it is also a key player in prevention of cancer.
• it also helps to heal and protect the skin from all kind of disease.
• it also helps in prevention of heart disease.
• it is also very high in anti-oxidant.
• it also help in balancing the body sugar level.
• it it supports the bone health
• it also prevent macular degeneration.

Conclusion

Eating tomato daily has a lot of benefits it gives to the body, it can also helps to nourish the body system and also the immune system, to learn more about the health benefits of tomato you can visit this link to get more information about it thank you, special thanks to @obikay and @chibuzorwisdom for introducing me to this wonderful community and also putting me through the process of post content because it wasn't really easy for me to navigate my way around the platform, which was also the reasons why wasn't active in the community.

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