Cherry tomatoes are small tomatoes that have a sweeter taste than full-size tomatoes and offer several health benefits. The alkaline fruit, that is mostly used as a vegetable, range in size from a thumb’s tip up to the size of a golf ball, and can range from being spherical to slightly oblong in shape.
Cherry tomatoes doesn’t contain any fat and a serving of cherry tomatoes is a really low in calories. According to The Diet Channel, snacks should be a meal that averages 100 to 200 calories. Five cherry tomatoes only contains 20 calories, so the fruit is good to have as a snack.
Snacking on cherry tomatoes or including them in a recipe helps supply essential minerals for the body daily. Just five cherry tomatoes or a serving impacts your immune system – you’ll get 10 percent of the nutrients needed for immune health each day.
Consuming cherry tomatoes offer certain benefits for men. The lycopene, which is a compound found in tomatoes, aids prostate health.
A study published in the May 2005 medical journal “Biochimica et Biophysica Acta” showed that subjects who ate tomato products for a period of three weeks had an increase in cell death in infectious prostate cells. Researchers concluded that the phytochemicals in cherry tomatoes promote prostate health.