What are the advantages of taking tomatoes daily as our food item?

One medium whole tomato contains around 22 calories, 0 grams of fat, 5 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of dietary fiber, 1 gram of protein and 6 milligrams of sodium. It also provides 40 percent of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin C, 20 percent of the RDA of vitamin A, 2 percent of the RDA of iron, and 1 percent of the RDA of calcium. Tomatoes reduce the risk of heart disease & cancer.

Tomatoes may prevent cancer and reduce the risk of heart disease. It contains beta carotene and lycopene. Lycopene is an anti oxidant that turns fruit aand vegetables orage-red, it removes the free radicals from our body. It is also good for skin.

Having tomaoes in our daily diet is of tremendous benefit to our health. They are a great source of antioxidants that can fight and prevent against many diseases that attack the body. They can be eaten in so many ways so enjoy a tomato everyday. Your body will thank you for it.

Tomatoes have Vitamin C known to be as immune boosters and also Lycopene which helps prevent certain cancers.

I have read that to get anything like the full benefit of tomatoes in terms of lycopene you need to cook them, and make sure you eat the skin - peeled tomatoes are not a good idea. There are stories about tomatoes also containing solanine, which would be bad news, but this is disputed. In any case, the levels are not likely to be high, but it's as well not to go completely overboard on tomatoes. They also contain oxalate, but levels don't seem to be more than for many other foods.

Tomatoes are a good source of lycopene, an antioxidant. Lycopene is being studied as a preventative measure against cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancer. A number of studies show that men who get more lycopene in their diet have less risk of prostate cancer (info from bhia.org). Fresh tomatoes and tomato extracts have been shown to help lower total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides (from whfoods.com) They are a good source of Vitamins A, C, K, folate and potassium. Tomatoes provide thiamin, niacin, Vitamin B6, magnesium, phosphorous and copper. They contain beta-carotene which helps protect the skin against sun damage (from beliefnet.com). And there are even more benefits from tomatoes than those I've mentioned. As for side effects, if you were to eat 10 tomatoes a day you would exceed your Vitamin A upper limit, which could cause nausea and headaches, according to the Linus Pauling Institute.

They said it will result our skin become flawless. I don't know if that is true but in science you will OMEGA 3 in tomato

I leave out the tomato in any dish. It's because for my blood type tomatoes is not recommendable to eat. I do read that tomatoes has lycopene.

I only use tomatoe for cooking before and never eat fresh ones, but my husband eats a lot and makes a salad and slowly I got used to it. I noticed that it's really true that it makes your skin healthier, I got my skin smoother and don't have dandruffs anymore and it also helps my hair stops falling.