Tomato 'Doll'

Tomatoes very long and hard punch the way to our table. At one time they were considered a strong, "long-playing" poison, which was capable, causing a man a lot of torture, eventually kill him. In order to prove the opposite, it was necessary, sometimes, to resort to very unusual methods. So, in history a story is recorded about how one of the senior officers of the US Army named Robert Gibbon, in order to prove the absolute harmlessness of tomatoes, announced that on September 26, 1820, in the central square of Salem, he would eat a whole basket of red tomatoes. To look at it gathered a huge crowd. Everyone was expecting an eerie spectacle of slow death. But the colonel disappointed everyone - he did not just not die, but even went off the stage with a smile on his face, which surprised his countrymen by unspeakably.

To date, there are a huge number of varieties of tomatoes of a variety of shapes, sizes and colors. One of them is the tomato variety "Doll". He does not differ much from his fellow men. Tomato "Doll" can be used almost in any form: cheese, boiled, fried, it can be stuffed with various ingredients. Tomato "Doll" is used as a basis for soup, borsch, second dishes, various side dishes and marinades. It produces a wonderful tomato paste, sauce, ketchup. Prepared from tomato "doll" juice, is very rich in vitamins and other substances useful for our body. After all, fresh tomato fruit contains up to 7% of natural sugar (usually in the form of glucose and fructose), up to 1.5% of natural protein, a lot of starch, fiber, pectin substances. There are carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, folic, pantothenic, nicotinic and malic acids , etc.

Like all tomatoes, the tomato "Doll" has many healing properties. Its composition contains many substances that contribute to the suppression of the development of a variety of pathogens. True to this day, few people think about it, because the pharmacy sells a huge selection of a variety of antibiotics. But in vain. In folk medicine, which still exists, grinded tomatoes are used as an antiulcer and wound-healing remedy. The use of fresh juice and tomatoes themselves helps prevent avitaminosis.

Eating fresh tomatoes is beneficial to any person, at any age and with any feeling. But especially medical workers recommend them to people complaining of reduced acidity of gastric juice, metabolic disorders, a sick liver and cardiovascular system. Very useful fresh tomatoes to people who suffer from a deficiency in the body of a trace element, such as potassium. Not so long ago, modern scientists discovered the presence in tomatoes of one more useful substance - lycopene. This natural antioxidant is an excellent catcher of free radicals that accumulate in the body. Its presence in tomato reduces the risk of any oncological or cardiovascular disease. To better its absorption by the body, tomatoes are recommended to be consumed in cooked form together with fatty foods. For example, with butter. In this case, lycopene is not simply better absorbed by our body, but its concentration in hot food will also increase by about 50%.

For cultivation on its farmstead the tomato "Doll" is very suitable. Reviews about it are almost always positive. Tomatoes of this variety are large, pink, somewhat flattened, have a sweetish taste, are irreplaceable when added to salads. The maturation period of the tomato varies from 85 to 100 days, depending on the weather conditions. Grow it, like most tomatoes, in the open without any tweaks.