Scrambled eggs with tomatoes are almost a regular guest at the table in many families, suitable for all ages, and it is also very good. So, is it nutritious or not?
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes are delicious, but are they really healthy?
In modern life, more and more people are beginning to pay attention to physical health, and while paying attention to the deliciousness of food, they are beginning to care about its benefits to the body. For example, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and eggs alone are very healthy ingredients.
Tomatoes, both vegetables and fruits, are not only popular among mainlanders, but also a favorite ingredient for foreigners, used in main dishes or side dishes. In vitro and animal experiments, it has been found that lycopene in tomatoes, which is a natural antioxidant substance, has the benefits of preventing prostate cancer and colorectal cancer.
In addition, there is also an ingredient called glutathione in tomatoes, which also has antioxidant effects, if it is compared with vitamin C and vitamin E, glutathione has a better antioxidant capacity, and the body helps to reduce the probability of malignant diseases by ingesting this nutrient.
As for whether tomatoes should be eaten raw or cooked, eating them raw can help the body absorb vitamin C, and cooked food helps the body absorb lycopene.
Eggs, eggs as the most suitable for the human body needs nutrients, its high-quality protein components utilization rate is extremely high, people who eat an egg every day, has a variety of effects such as improving memory, stabilizing blood lipids, alleviating arteriosclerosis, and enhancing immunity.
So, if you look at these two ingredients alone, they are very healthy food, but if you combine the two to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes, you need to be vigilant.
Are scrambled eggs with tomatoes healthy?
There have been experiments to test tomato scrambled eggs, according to the cooking habits of most families, oil will be put twice when frying tomatoes, and eggs have the characteristics of "lipophilic", frying such a dish, it is likely to put a lot of oil, resulting in excessive calories.
Not only that, for some families also like to eat sweet tomato scrambled eggs, on this basis put a lot of sugar, the human body overeats, and there will be problems such as excess energy. In terms of specific calories, just an egg and a tomato can reach about 340 kcal.
However, 100g of white rice has about 110 kcal, and it is really hard to imagine that such a combination does not exceed the calorie standard.
Therefore, it is not recommended that you eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes regularly, even if you eat them occasionally, you should pay attention to controlling the amount of cooking oil, and it is best not to put sugar. In the way of eating eggs, avoid eggs inhaling a lot of oil, you can choose boiled eggs, steamed chicken cakes, braised eggs, etc.