Japanese researchers have found that tomatoes help to break down alcohol
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Last Update: 2012-05-31
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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A Japanese research team recently announced that drinking tomato juice while drinking can prevent the sharp rise of alcohol concentration in the body, slow down the drunkenness, and the time of sobering up will be earlier Japan's Asahi group and kogomei company jointly conducted the experiment In the course of drinking 100 ml Japanese cooking wine, the subjects in group a drank 480 ml tomato juice several times, while those in group B drank water and cooking wine The results showed that the blood alcohol concentration in group A was about 30% lower than that in group B the time of alcohol metabolism and excretion in group A was about 4 hours and 10 minutes, while that in group B was about 5 hours The team believes that the ingredients in tomatoes activate the enzymes that metabolize alcohol in human body: after ingesting tomatoes, the concentration of pyruvate in the blood increases, and the activity of lactate dehydrogenase in the liver increases, producing a large number of coenzymes called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, which can metabolize alcohol dehydrogenase and acetaldehyde dehydrogenase that metabolizes acetaldehyde Function is active, thus promoting alcohol metabolism.
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