Can frozen tomatoes still be eaten? How to eat frozen tomatoes?

Now the temperature is heating up gradually, and it's time for tomatoes to go on sale. At this time, the taste of tomatoes is super delicious. The tomatoes bought back have the longest preservation time in the refrigerator, and many people will choose to freeze them. So, can frozen tomatoes be eaten?

Can frozen tomatoes still be eaten? Ripe frozen tomatoes, in theory, can be eaten as long as they are not bad.

The main components of tomato are water, carbohydrate, a small amount of protein, cellulose and fat. After freezing, the main components of tomato remain unchanged and do not produce toxicity. If the frozen time is not too long and not bad, the frozen ripe tomatoes can be eaten. In addition, tomatoes mainly contain vitamins, lycopene. These vitamins are heat resistant. Freezing has no effect on them, but it will affect the taste.

Green tomatoes can't be eaten after freezing.

First of all, green tomatoes can't be eaten. Because it is immature tomato, green tomato contains a kind of toxic solanine. After people eat it, not only the taste is bitter, but also there will be a variety of toxic reactions, such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, burnout and so on. The toxic mechanism of solanine is to inhibit the activity of cholinesterase and cause toxic reaction to human body. And green tomatoes will not ripen after freezing. The storage temperature of tomatoes is 0 to 0.5 ℃. After freezing, tomatoes are damaged by freezing and will not be ripened later. Tomatoes that are no longer ripened still contain solanine and tannic acid. Solanine is toxic to some extent. Eating it will cause solanine poisoning, so it is not recommended to eat frozen green tomatoes.

Frozen tomatoes need to be eaten as soon as possible

after frozen, the meat of tomato will change into flour, which has a small granular feeling and more free water. Frozen tomatoes can also be damaged by vitamins that are less stable. So, eat it as soon as possible before it goes bad, or it will go bad easily. Tomatoes are easy to deteriorate in the refrigerator, because the internal cells of tomatoes are relatively loose, and the cell wall is very thin, which contains more free water. Putting tomatoes in the refrigerator is easy to freeze and expand the cells, resulting in cell breakage and deterioration. Therefore, the above-mentioned ripe frozen tomatoes can be eaten, only for a short period of freezing, not bad.

How to eat the frozen tomatoes? 1. Put the mature frozen tomatoes in the refrigerator and thaw them slowly. After thawing, they can be used for cooking or direct consumption.

2. Soak the ripe frozen tomatoes in warm water for a period of time, thaw and soften them, and then eat them.

2. Cut the ripe frozen tomatoes into small pieces directly before thawing, and then put them in the vegetables for stewing and eating.