Is it safe to eat cooked tomatoes? A text demystifys you.

Tomatoes are one of the most widely grown vegetables in the world, and with the development of the greenhouse, we can now eat fresh tomatoes all year round. However, sometimes we buy tomatoes although the appearance is very red, but pinched on it is hard, cut after the dragonfly is still green. This is because tomatoes are used with a hypnotic agent called ethylene. In order to allow tomatoes to ripen as early as possible and sell at a good price, vegetable farmers often use vinyl smears, dipping fruit and spraying of whole plants to cook. So is it safe to eat this artificially cooked tomato?
, what exactly is vinyl? Ethylene is a common gas in plants, ripe fruit can also release ethylene, its main role is to promote fruit ripening. For example, the autumn just picked the persimmon is relatively hard, to make the persimmon soft, you can put the persimmon and mature apples together, the ethylene released by the apple can promote the ripening of the persimmon soft. In the earliest, people used ethylene-containing coal stove gas to help the fruit ripen. But because ethylene is a gas, in storage and transportation and use is very inconvenient, so ethylene profit came into being.
is a synthetic plant growth regulator, soluble in water, the market is more than 40% concentration of ethylene water agent. After dilution of water, when the pH is greater than 4 and the temperature is higher than 20 degrees C, ethylene can be released to speed up the ripening of the fruit. According to the maximum pesticide residue limit standard in China's food, the maximum residual limit of ethylene per kilogram of tomatoes is 2 mg.
the quality, taste and flavor of tomatoes by using vinyl to cook tomatoes. Everyone wants to eat naturally ripe tomatoes, but ripe tomatoes tend to go bad and inconvenient to transport. So when picking, vegetable farmers are choosing tomatoes that are easy to transport and still green in color. After all, ethylene is a low-toxic organic matter, some people worry that ethylene will lead to precocious children, make people grow old quickly, these fears are superfluous. Plant hormones and animal hormones are completely different two types of substances, plant hormones can not play a role in the human body. Ethylene is soluble in water, if you buy back tomatoes worried about residue, soak in water and rinse for a few minutes.
this paper by the branch of the food and nutrition information exchange center business director Yan Guangfeng scientific control.