Can I eat unripe tomatoes?

　　According to reports, some people recently said that tomatoes should not be eaten casually, and there is also a saying circulating on the Internet: tomato Contains nicotine. Is this really the case?

　　The reporter found out through research that tomatoes do contain an ingredient called tomatine. Is this tomatine the nicotine that has gone viral on the Internet? The reporter interviewed Mr. Li, director of the Tomato Research Institute of Northeast Agricultural University. He said that tomatine is nicotine, and the two ingredients are the same thing.

　　It is said that the nicotine in one cigarette after purification can poison a mouse, the nicotine in 20 cigarettes can poison a cow, and the nicotine in 25 cigarettes after purification can poison a person. This sounds a bit scary. Are you addicted to nicotine if you like to eat tomatoes? Will you be poisoned if you eat it regularly?

　　People who often eat tomatoes are more concerned about this issue. Teacher Li, director of the Tomato Research Institute of Northeast Agricultural University, also gave the answer. He said that unripe tomatoes contain tomatine and are not suitable for consumption. There is no harm in eating tomatoes after they are ripe, and ripe tomatoes do not contain tomatine, so you can eat them with confidence. On the contrary, tomatoes are vegetables with relatively high levels of carotene and lycopene among all vegetables. Lycopene has an antioxidant capacity in the human body and is effective in a variety of cancer It is therapeutic.