Tomatoes

Tomatoes are an important horticultural commodities, but good production quantity and quality is still low. This is due among other things the hard ground, poor micro nutrients and hormones, are not balanced fertilization, pest and diseases, the influence of weather and climate, and farmers' cultivation technical
PT. Natural Nusantara seeks to help farmers in increasing production quantity and quality while maintaining environmental sustainability (Aspects of K-3), so that farmers can compete in the era of free trade.
Benefits of tomatoes for the body:
1. increase appetite
2. remove acne
3. able to work to clean the liver, kidney organs and cells - blood cells from toxins effectively
4. prevent constipation and cleanse the stomach
5. prevent the risk of appendicitis disease and heart disease
6. inhibit cell growth - cancer cells in the breast area, prostate and uterine
7. launched the digestive tract
8. restoring the health of tiredness
9. anti cancer
10. able to increase the body's antibody well
11. helps remove fats
12. a very good antioxidant
13. heal the sick in the stomach bloating
14. counteract the blood sugar

Ingredients are useful from tomatoes:
1. Iron
2. Acid Citrate
3. Lycopen
4. Vitamin A
5. Vitamin C
6. Folic Acid
7. Potassium
8. Calories
9. Magnesium
10. Phosphorus
11. Calcium

Tips choosing tomatoes:
1. choose the color red tomatoes and the fruit density evenly, if feels a little bit soft / mushy / bruised then you should avoid these fruits
2. tomato color to look fresh (bright red) and round
3. tomato skin surface to be purchased should you choose that still smooth, no stains - stains bruised or rotten

Ketchup is the name in English for the tomato sauce that is pronounced like the word in Indonesian soy sauce. The origins of ketchup sauce is a kind of sauce that has been known since a long time in Asia called "Koe chiap" or "to-tsiap" in the Amoy dialect of China or "kechap" (ketjap) in Malayan. English and Dutch sailors introduced based thin sauce fish from Asia called the "catchup" ( "ketchup") and add various other ingredients to suit European tastes. Adding tomatoes to the "sauce" may be the innovation of English, although other opinions saying ketchup is an American creation.
The first tomato sauce

Tomato sauce recipe that first appeared in American cookbooks, entitled Sugar House Book in the year 1801. Tomato sauce is made in accordance with the Sugar House Book recipe would taste very salty, due to salt weighing 1 pound (453.59 grams) for processing into 100 pieces of tomato ketchup. In 1824, a prescription "ketchup" appear in the recipe book The Virginia Housewife by a cook famous 19th century named Mary Randolph who was a cousin of Thomas Jefferson.

Tomato sauce slowly becoming popular in America as more and more Americans like to eat tomatoes. At the time it was sold-made tomato sauce tomato farmers to meet local market needs. Yerks Jonas (Jonas Yerkes) said to be the first person to make tomato sauce on a large scale in the United States. Tomato sauce made by Jonas Yerks company has been sold nationally in the year 1837. Jonas Yerks trail followed by many other companies such as F. & J. Heinz to launch production of tomato sauce in the year 1876.

Webster's Dictionary published in 1913 defined "catchup" as a "table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc. [Written also ketchup] "(a sauce of mushrooms, tomatoes and walnuts, also written as ketchup).

Modern ketchup emerged in the early 20th century due to the debate about the use preservative sodium benzoate. Harvey W. Wiley, of the Food and Drug Administration benzoate worry about the impact on health. Henry J. Heinz responded to the FDA fears by creating a new recipe tomato sauce without preservatives.
Innovation ketchup

In the past, tomato sauce stored in glass bottles that make it difficult to cast. Bottle must be shaken, shake tomato sauce first so get out. Glass bottles is now being replaced with plastic bottles that can be squeezed.

In October 2000, Heinz introduced colored ketchup green, purple, pink, orange, blue, green and salted eggs. by adding food dye. This product is not received, so no longer produced since January 2006

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Benefits Red onion or scallions (Allium ascalonicum L.)

Red onion or scallions (Allium ascalonicum L.) is a plant of the family Alliaceae and the name of the tubers produced. Bulbs of onion plants are the main ingredient for Indonesian cooking basic ingredients.
Kerajaan: Plantae, Divisi: Magnoliophyta, Kelas: Liliopsida
Ordo: Asparagales, Famili: Alliaceae,Genus: Allium, Spesies: A. ascalonicum.
Benefits
Fried onions are red onions thinly sliced and fried with a lot of cooking oil. In general, Indonesian food in the form of soup and soup with fried onions for seasoning when serving. Onion also contain a natural growth regulator hormone auksin and giberelin.

Onion benefits for the body:
1. able to prevent blood clotting
2. provide opportunities to people with asthma cure
3. lowering blood pressure and fat levels in the blood
4. prevent the rise in blood sugar in people with diabetes mellitus

Ingredients are useful from the onion:
1. Phosphorus
2. Niacin
3. Enzyme Allinase
4. Sulfur
5. Vitamin B 1
6. Vitamin C
7. Flavonoids
8. Phenol Acid
9. Pectin
10. Volati Oil
11. Sterols
12. Calcium
13. Saponis
14. Carbohydrates
15. Fiber

Tips on choosing a good onion:
1. onion choose clean and hard, do not select the soft / bruised or have dark
2. do not choose onions that have been colored yellow

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Headache herbal

stem (Cymbopogon nardus)

SERAI (Cymbopogon nardus)

Plants including Poaceae family. Lemongrass like land near the water with loose soil. No wonder when lemongrass can be found growing wild on the banks of the river, marsh, or irrigation canals. plants contain oil ASIRI: geraniol, citronnelal, eugenol, methyl ether, sitral, dipenten, eugenol, kadinen, kadinol, and limonen. SERAI (Cymbopogon nardus) for cough medicine, pain or soreness, headaches, stomach pain, diarrhea.

Headache is a pain that attacks on the head, head feels dizzy, the world spinning round.
Types of Headaches :

1. The Tension Headache : is a form of headache is the most common.
2. Migraine : is a very sore head and a long run up to 6-24 hours, Classic migraines headaches with loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, Migraine usually found among 5% of the population. Most people get their first attack before the age of 30 years. These headaches are usually applied to the head but often thoroughly, and apply less than once a month.
3. Headaches group : resulted in a sharp stabbing pain that become concentrated in one eye, the attack time is usually short, as long as 30-90 minutes away.
4. Headaches Caused By Disease impression Against Giving Salur Blood-lines, is caused by the impression that lines the blood-lines in the skull, for example bleeding, blood clots, weakness and thinning of the walls in blood lines-lines and high blood pressure.
5. Increased pressure on brain.
6. inflammation of the brain membrane.
7. Disease In Or On The skull bone cavity (sinus)

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Overcoming Diabetes

Diabetes is where the body tissue in blood vessels have excessive levels of sugar, the body because they lack the hormone insulin. The cause of diabetes : due to lack of insulin production or lack of body tissues sensitive to insulin, insulin resistance that occurs in pregnant women.

jambu mete (Anacardium occidentale L.)

Cashew crop (Anacardium occidentale Linn) originated from Brazil and included in the Anacardiaceae family which includes 60 genera and 400 species in the form of trees or shrubs. Cashew plants called acajou or anacardier (France), cashew (UK), kajus or jambo nirung (Malaysia), kasoy or kachui (Philippine), caju or mudiri (India) and yes-koi, or yes-space (Thailand). In Indonesia, cashew nuts have different names in many areas, namely cashew nuts (Java), cashew nut (Sunda), cashew (Java and Sumatra), guava or cashew jipang Dwipa (Bali), Siki cashew, guava or groaned gaju ( Sumatra) and boa frangsi (Maluku).

COMPLICATIONS diabetes mellitus.

1. Blurred sight or even blind.
2. Disturbed heart function, heart doesn't functioned again.
3. Disturbed heart function.
4. Disturbed kidney function.
5. Wife husband connection passion / sex decreased.
6. High blood pressure.

Three plant foods rich in antioxidants that are proven takokak Solanum tarvum, petai Parkia speciosa, and the young leaves of cashew Anacardium occidentale. In Medicinal Plants: Quality Herbal Products for Healthy Living (1999), Vimala S. et al. states, the third food that has cleaning activity of superoxide high, ie above 70%. Takokak young fruit known as the Sunda people lalap raw or cooked vegetables. Javanese call poka or cepoka, terongan, cong eels, or cokowana. In Sumatra, known as the eggplant pipit. Fruits and leaves of this plant contain steroidal alkaloid type solasodin 0.84% which is the raw material of sex hormones for contraception. Also has a sterol compounds as anti-inflammatory carpesterol. Petai seeds are also known as liver disease drug (hepatalgia), udema, inflammation of the kidneys (nephritis), diabetes, and as peluruh worms (antelmintik). The leaves are used as medicinal ingredients jaundice. Efficacy was allegedly related to the alkaloidnya content. Petai also has some sulfur compounds that cause the smell. The young leaves of cashew nuts are usually eaten raw or boiled as lalap a vegetable. Other parts of this plant can also be used as a traditional remedy skin problems, cleaning the mouth, and laxatives.

Selenium is a micro nutrients in whole grains and beans. This material is available to plants from the soil. Selenium is important in the synthesis of natural antioxidant enzymes in the body as a root out glutatione peroxide superoxide anions. Vitamin C is also an important antioxidant to protect cells and tissues from the damaging superoxide. This vitamin also enhances the immune system. He's a lot there in orange and guava.
The third addition to this food, antioxidants can also be obtained from plant sources of vitamin A, vitamin C, and selenium. Vitamin A is one of the cleaning superoxide in the mucous membrane. With vitamin A on a regular basis, the risk of suffering from lung cancer can be reduced. This vitamin is usually found in vegetables and fruits red or yellow like carrots and papaya.

Cecendet or ciplukan (Physalia angulata) is a trusted shrubs as a traditional medicine to treat pneumonia, gout, diabetes, abdominal pain and much more.

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