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Don't eat tomatoes???

Patch

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Just stumbled upon this - it's a new one on me:

"Starchy foods do seem to take much longer to cook when tomatoes are added. Therefore, tomatoes may act to lock in starches."

What d'ya think?
 
Never heard that one before perhaps we should all eat em raw :lol:
 
I eat them raw like sweeties. I'm going to grow some upside down this year :D
Hana
 
It is known that when you cook tomatoes, the sugars are broken down and have a higher impact on your BG. But thinking that tomatoes can actually stop starch/carbs leeching out of food during cooking?

Does seem a little far fetched...
 
Patch said:
It is known that when you cook tomatoes, the sugars are broken down and have a higher impact on your BG. But thinking that tomatoes can actually stop starch/carbs leeching out of food during cooking?

Does seem a little far fetched...
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There maybe something in it but this is a speculative answer.
I'm not sure that there is any good evidence for cooked tomatoes having a greater effect on levels than uncooked. (except for anecdotal) ... I think quite often people eat a greater quantity cooked as in a sauce than raw.
The gis of tomato sauce (without sugar added) which is cooked and tomato juice which is raw are similar. You gave an example in another thread comparing sun dried toms with fresh but the sundried ones have a higher density of tomato flesh compared with the raw ones which contain a lot of water, you need an awful lot more dried toms to make 100g than raw ones. Oddly though I can find no gi for a raw tomato. (as research papers say, more research is needed)

As to what happens when you cook starches with tomatoes. The only evidence I can find is the effect of acids in foods like tomatoes on a starches used for thickening. It has the effect of causing the starch to break down into smaller particles which don't gelatinise well. The result is a thin sauce . (think of what happens when you add cornflour to a liquid and heat it... well with tomatoes in the mixture the reaction doesn't work as well).
If you are cooking say a potato in a tomato sauce, it could possibly take longer to cook,(ie for the starches to gelatinise ) but most people want to eat it when it s cooked so there would probably be no advantage.

Now if you were then to cool the dish and then reheat it you might have more residual starch and a lower gi result but it would take a lab and some willing volunteers to find the answer.
 
Cut tomatoes out about a fortnight ago, how I miss them! :(

Nigel
 
I eat the cherry tomato type, handfulls of them - abosutly delish and don't seem to have any affect on Blood sugar levels or reducing weight loss.

Yum
 
carty
didn't you see the pics in the papers of tomatoes growing out of the bottom of hanging baskets?
I'm curious about this as it wasn't April fools day, however most plants will grow upwards whatever you do to them, so I just have to try it
Hana
 
cugila said:
Patch.
Where did this actually come from then.......do you have a link ?

Ken
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Nope. I stopped posting links when the mods said "stop posting links".
 
Patch said:
cugila said:
Patch.
Where did this actually come from then.......do you have a link ?

Ken
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Nope. I stopped posting links when the mods said "stop posting links".
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Nobody has ever been told to stop posting links......read the Forum rules on the subject.
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If you are posting something that has no proof or a source, just a rumour from somewhere there is every chance that the post/thread could be deleted. Usually though that is when it is about something important. We like to stick to the facts on this Forum.

cugila
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Just a joke Hana :lol: I saw that report also I think it should work ,strawberries can be grown in hanging baskets quite well .I grow raspberries and blackcurrents but I stay the right way up :!: .Nothing like home grown fruit and veg. :)
 
Since following a Bernstein inspired diet I have cut out tomatoes to a greater degree. He says tomatoes are a fruit not a vegetable and as with citrus their tang can conceal just how sweet they are. The prolonged cooking necessary for the preparation of tomato sauces releases a lot of glucose and you would do well to avoid them. Raw in salads limit yourself to one slice or a single cherry tomato.
The cherry tomatoes self seed in my garden year round and it is so easy to pop one, two or more in my mouth when gardening but I am mostly careful not to as I simply find that his extensive research on himself mirrors pretty well what MY BGLs will likely do. I really, really hate it that fruit has been off my list for about 18 months, Grrrrrrrr. Small amounts of berries, fine. As I don't eat starchy vegetables either the tomato trick is probably not for me either. I don't take Bernstein's stuff as absolute as I try and test for myself. Passionfruit is hanging off my back fence right now and joy of joys, one of them gives me the tart flavour I crave and doesn't take me over my chosen top.
Alison
 
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