Journey of taste: Everyone is crazy about foreign tomatoes, demand remains even after being expensive, beneficial for the body too

Taste of Travel: Nowadays, there is two-three ‘Dhoom’ all over the country. Opposition parties have heated up the political atmosphere by forming INDIA Morcha, while on the other hand the outbreak of floods has created problems in many states. Thirdly, red tomatoes have ‘spoiled’ the taste of the food by showing their absence in the kitchen. For now, let’s talk about tomatoes. Tomato has such a strong presence in the Indian kitchen that without it neither color nor juice comes in the food. Nowadays tomatoes are being sold at ‘Baba Ke Mol’ and without it people especially housewives are turning ‘red’ in anger. To pacify their anger, the government has been forced to sell tomatoes.
Where government tomatoes are being sold, the crowd of buyers makes it clear that tomato is not an essential part of the kitchen just like that. What is it about tomatoes that people are fuming without it? The special thing is that this tomato is not Indian but foreign. Moreover, there is also confusion about whether tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. But there are people that are going gaga over it. Today we reveal all the reasons why this is so.

Tomatoes have been getting expensive earlier also, but this time…!

Nowadays the price of tomato is running above Rs 200 per kg. The reason being told is that due to rains and floods in North India, the tomato crop got damaged, due to which its arrival in urban areas decreased and the prices increased. The surprising thing is that the prices of tomatoes always increase during the monsoon, but this time the prices have increased as much as never before.

When the continuous shortage of tomatoes spoiled the taste of the kitchen, people’s displeasure started increasing. To pacify the anger of the people, the government had to come into the fray and started selling tomatoes at Rs.80 per kg. Rationing was done in its sale, that is, a person would not get more than two kilos of tomatoes. Despite this, the rates of tomato have still not become normal in the common mandis. Distressed housewives are now using tomato puree of companies, but the heart is stuck on round, red-laced tomatoes again and again.

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Most tomato consumption from vegetables

First, let us tell you why tomato is necessary for cooking and taste, while tamarind and dried mango are there to make the vegetable sour like tomato and red chilies are present to give red color, but they are not able to substitute tomato. Are. The reason for this is that the taste of tomato vegetable emerges differently, then no one can compete with its colour. In fact, if you want to add thickness to any vegetable, to bring out a pleasant sour taste in it or to bring red color (very important for gravied vegetables of India), only tomato can do that. Let us tell you that tomato is the only vegetable in the world which is consumed the most.

Actually it does not have any effect on winter-summer-rain, it is available for 12 months. One reason for that is that more than 9,000 varieties of it grow all over the world. Salad is incomplete without tomato, so it is used in soup, pickle, ketchup, puree, sauce and many other ways. Now even grilled and fried tomatoes have spread their wings. Nowadays, apart from veg dishes, grilled mutton, chicken and tomato along with fries will also be seen chattering.

The properties of keeping the body ‘young’ are

Don’t just assume that tomato adds flavor to the food, it is also very beneficial for the body. Actually it plays a special role in keeping the body young. Doctors, dieticians and Ayurveda doctors say that tomato has tremendous digestive power and it also does not allow worms to grow in the stomach. This quality keeps the body young. In fact, when the digestion system remains smooth and the worms that grow in the stomach, which also harm fat and blood, are not there, then the time of old age will slow down.

There is no definite record available of when and how tomato came to India. Image-Canva

According to well-known dietician Anita Lamba, tomato also increases appetite. Since it is an antioxidant, it also keeps the body away from common diseases. The special element found in it protects the body skin from sunburn and ultraviolet rays. Ayurveda considers tomato as a boon of God. According to experts, tomatoes provide strength along with making food tasty. Tomato acid means acidic in nature, sweet, helpful in quick digestion of food, power enhancer, Antiperspirants, along with it is blood purifier and stimulant.

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It entered India only a few hundred years ago.

Because of these characteristics, tomato has always been a favorite of the Indian kitchen and without it, the taste of the kitchen fades and the face of the housewives turns pale. Tomato is an essential part of kitchen and vegetable in India, but you will be surprised that it is a foreigner, it entered India only a few hundred years ago. Author and senior scientist of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Dr. Bishwajit Chowdhary has told in his book ‘VEGETABLES’ that it has been used as food by the inhabitants of Central and South America since prehistoric times. It is believed to have originated in the Peruvian and Mexican regions and was brought to Europe by Spanish explorers in the early sixteenth century. It was probably brought to India by the Portuguese (circa 16th century). According to Chowdhary, however, there is no definite record available of when and how tomato came to India. There is also a question whether tomato is a fruit or a vegetable! Dr. Naved Sabir, Principal Scientist, Center for Protected Agricultural Technology, located in the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (Pusa), says that tomato is a fruit according to botany. But it is used more in the form of cooked rather than uncooked, hence it came to be called vegetable. Oxford dictionary has called tomato a fruit.

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