Tomato is one of the distinguished vegetables of Greece but also of the Mediterranean, due to the particular climatic conditions of the area. It is a unique food combining: flavour, few calories and a very high nutritional value! It is rich in vitamins and minerals that help regulate blood sugar and cholesterol in our blood. They also are ideal during your diet or fasting, especially just before the Easter divine.
We can enjoy them either raw or cooked and feel their taste, and gain all the beneficial ingredients to the human body. Researches have proved that the old perception, that only the raw form is nutritious, has been overcome because, for example, lykopenio is being better absorbed by the body when you cook tomatoes, while not much of vitamin C gets altered and the enzymes are ideal in their raw form.
The era in which tomato is in abundance, is the summer. It is a characteristic picture in Greece, with the stalls of the street markets being full of tomatoes or the fields being also full of them. The need for tasting tomato throughout the year, led to cultivation in greenhouses and in maintaining tomatoes with other ways such as sauces, in many forms and flavoring combinations offering to us tomato's benefits and taste of all over the year.