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Tomato fruits are eaten fresh, boiled, fried, canned, dried, tomato paste, tomato puree, tomato juice, ketchup and other sauces, and lecho are prepared from them. Cold tomato soups are popular in Spain - gazpacho, salmorejo. Tomatoes are good to eat in any form. Fresh tomatoes will have more vitamin C than heat-treated ones, but this will not play a big role. But the antioxidants in tomatoes - lycopene and beta-carotene - become more bioactive during canning and heat treatment. One tomato provides about 40% of the daily requirement for vitamin C. Tomatoes are also a good source of iron, potassium, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus and copper.