“…Tomato pomace has been used mostly as animal feed (Hegde et al, 2018), but recently it has been proposed as a source of bioproducts, like polysaccharides (Tommonaro et al, 2008), lycopene, β-carotene, phenolic compounds, flavonoids, levulinic acid, phytosterols, vegetal oil, cutin (Fritsch et al, 2017;Ravindran and Jaiswal, 2016;Scoma et al, 2016) and as plant fertiliser or microbial growth medium (Fritsch et al, 2017). The generation of biofuels like ethanol and butanol from a substantial number of lignocellulosic and food processing wastes has been extensively assessed (Diaz et al, 2018;Hijosa-Valsero et al, 2018a, 2018bHuzir et al, 2018). However, the application of tomato waste in biofuel production by fermentation is not well studied (Hegde et al, 2018), in spite of the recent methods described to release simple sugars from tomato by-products (Díaz et al, 2017).…”