How to Dry Tomatoes. Reduce Your Cancer Risk with Natural Tomatoes

One Serving of Dried Tomatoes Provides 20 Vitamins and Minerals, Including Protein and Fiber

Tomatoes, packed full of nutrition and antioxidants, can actually help to reduce your risk of cancer and other diseases. This article discusses the health benefits of tomatoes and also teaches readers how to dry tomatoes easily and cheaply.

Reduce Your Risk of Cancer and Other Diseases:

How do tomatoes reduce our risk of cancer and other diseases? Tomatoes are a power house of antioxidants, according to Northwestern Health Sciences University. Antioxidants actually help to prevent cancer and many other diseases, according to Well Beyond 100 at http://wellbeyond100.com/cancer.aspx. As a matter of fact, Well Beyond 100 states that antioxidants can actually help kill damaged cells which fuel malignancies.

Uses for Dried Tomatoes:

What do people do with dried tomatoes? Dried tomatoes are a great snack. They taste wonderful, and are not sticky or messy, and are very easy to eat. Place them into a ziplock snack bag, and you have a superior snack. Dried tomatoes are also great to put into chili, soups, stews, and salads.

Nutrition in Dried Tomatoes:

Surprisingly, one small custard cup (2.5 ounces) of dried tomatoes provides the following nutrition:
(Nutritional facts provided by the nutrition calculator at http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp)

Calories 132.3
Fat 2.1 grams
Cholesterol 0.0 mg
Sodium 56.7 mg
Potassium 1,398.6 mg
Total Carbohydrate 29.2 grams
Dietary Fiber 6.9 grams
Sugars 0.0 grams
Protein 5.4 grams

*Percentage of daily vitamin/mineral requirements:
Vitamin A 78.5%
Vitamin B-6 25.2%
Vitamin C 105.0%
Vitamin E 11.9%
Calcium 3.2%
Copper 23.3%
Folate 23.6%
Iron 15.8%
Magnesium 17.3%
Manganese 33.1%
Niacin 19.8%
Pantothenic Acid 15.6%
Phosphorus 15.1%
Riboflavin 17.8%
Selenium 3.6%
Thiamin 24.8%
Zinc 3.8%

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Two Ways to Dry Tomatoes: