番茄又名西红柿、番柿、洋柿子等,既可作菜熟食,又可当作水果生吃.它的味道甜中微酸,望之生津止渴,食之沁人脾胃,是我国人民普遍喜食的蔬菜之一.可您知道吗?在二、三百年前,番茄竟被人们视为“有毒的植物”、“狐狸吃的果实”,没人敢吃,其中的缘由是这样的:番茄的老家在南美洲安提斯山区的北部.最早由墨西哥到秘鲁一带的印第安人栽培.1544年,西班牙殖民者把番茄当作美洲的一种奇花异草带到了欧洲.此后三百多年的历史中,番茄一直遭受到“冷遇”. Tomatoes, also known as tomatoes, persimmon, persimmon, etc., both for cooking cooked food, but also as a raw fruit to eat it taste sweet sour, hope thirst, food and refreshing, is common in our people One of the vegetables you like to eat. Can you know? Two or three hundred years ago, tomatoes were actually regarded as “poisonous plants” and “foxes eat fruits,” and no one dared to eat. The reason is that : Tomato’s home is in the north of the Andes Mountains in South America, first cultivated by Native Americans from Mexico to Peru, and Spanish colonists brought tomatoes to Europe in 1544 as an exotic flower of the Americas In the history of many years, tomato has been subjected to “cold reception.”