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What foods are tomatoes compatible with?

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Asked on:Apr 15, 2026 06:27 AM

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  • Gloria Gloria

    Apr 15, 2026

      Tomatoes are a kind of fruit and vegetable food, sweet and sour, rich in nutrients, rich in vitamin C and calcium, iron, phosphorus and other minerals, and are deeply loved by people. However, tomatoes contain a large amount of gum, pectin, gossypol and other ingredients. These substances can easily react chemically with gastric acid and condense into insoluble lumps. These lumps may block the exit of the stomach, increase the pressure in the stomach, cause gastric distension, and even cause severe pain. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat tomatoes on an empty stomach. When you eat tomatoes after a meal, the gastric acid is fully mixed with the food, which greatly reduces the concentration of gastric acid and prevents it from forming hard lumps.

      In addition, unripe green tomatoes should not be eaten. Because unripe tomatoes contain a lot of poisonous tomato Alkali, after people eat it, they will have poisoning symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, salivation, and fatigue. After the tomatoes mature and turn red, the tomatine content is greatly reduced or even disappears.

      What should not be eaten with tomatoes:

      Tomatoes + Cucumbers Cucumbers contain vitamin C-degrading enzymes, and eating them together can destroy the vitamin C in tomatoes.

      The vitamin C in fish + tomatoes will inhibit the release of copper.

      Tomatoes and white wine are incompatible: eating them together will make you feel chest tightness and shortness of breath.

      Tomatoes and sweet potatoes are incompatible: eating them together can cause stone disease, vomiting, stomach achediarrhea

      Tomatoes and carrots are incompatible: the vitamin C in tomatoes will be destroyed by the decomposing enzymes in carrots.

      Tomatoes and pig liver are in conflict with each other: pig liver oxidizes and deoxygenates the vitamin C in tomatoes and loses its original ascorbic acid function.

      Tomatoes and salted fish are in conflict with each other: eating them together can easily produce carcinogens.

      Tomatoes and hairy crabs are incompatible: eating them together can cause diarrhea.

      Eating tomatoes and mung beans together will damage your vitality.

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