August 8th - business cooperatives

Recently micro-blog a netizen said tomatoes contains nicotine, raw tomatoes is passive secondhand smoke. This, experts say, not to fight pesticide raw tomatoes does not affect the health of.

The 5 day, the reporter interviewed South China Agricultural University professor Hu Kailin, he devoted to the study of tomato breeding research. He said, in his study also found no tomatoes contain nicotine, even, its content is extremely small, will not cause harm to humans. He believes that this popular vegetables, tomatoes, after hundreds of years of edible, belonging to health food, not found on human harmful examples, there can be no doubt about its safety.

However, whether for eating, Hu Kailin said, if the plant is pure natural, no pesticides, then eaten raw can be. But for domestic tomatoes are playing pesticides could not be determined, so try to cooked food safety. There are some vegetables, such as beans, due to containing alkali substances, not cooked food it does have an impact on health.