Biochemical Parameters in Tomato Fruits from Different Cultivars as Functional Foods for Agricultural, Industrial, and Pharmaceutical Uses

Abstract

Tomato and tomato based products are an important agricultural production worldwide. More than 80 % of grown tomatoes in the worldwide are processing in the products such as tomato juice, paste, puree, catsup, sauce, and salsa. Tomato fruit is rich in phytochemicals and vitamins. Tomato nutritional value, color, fruit and flavor of their products depends mainly on lycopene, β-carotene, ascorbic acid and sugars and their ratio in fruits. Epidemiological studies and the results associated with the consumption of tomato products against the prevention of chronic diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, confirming the tomato products as a functional food, and show that lycopene and β-carotene acts as an antioxidant. In order to increase the amount of these elements in tomato fruit, it is important to evaluate and investigate tomato genotypes influence to the carotenoids accumulation. Studies have confirmed that the carotenoid content in tomato fruits is determined by genotypic characteristics. In this work the main attention will be focused on from the biochemical and physical properties in tomato of different varieties, chemical and physical properties, to functional properties of supercritical fluid extraction of lycopene from tomato processing by products supercritical fluid tomato extracts.

Mechanical resistance, biometric and physicochemical characteristics of tomato cultivars for industrial processing

“…Tomato firmness under compression and skin puncture are mechanical properties relevant on characterization of processing tomatoes and are related to ripening rate and susceptibility to mechanical damage during harvest and transport (Li et al, 2017;Stropek & Golacki, 2015), taking into account that fruits are exposed to mechanical stress during those operations that can cause damage by cutting and/or crushing, and therefore causing qualitative and quantitative losses (Dimitrios et al, 2018;Viskelis et al, 2015).…”

Composition and Antioxidant Activity, Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction Extracts, and Residue after Extraction of Biologically Active Compounds from Freeze-Dried Tomato Matrix

“…The total concentration of lycopene, β carotene, and their isomers in concentrated extracts (oleoresins) of SCE-CO2 is depicted in Figure 3. Genotype differences between cultivars, such as skin thickness, skin/pulp ratio, seed numbers, and dimensions, could significantly affect the amounts of the freeze-dried tomato matrix obtained from fresh tomatoes [38,39]. The antioxidant properties of lipophilic extracts were determined and evaluated in SCE-CO2 extracts from different tomato varieties.…”

Assessment of Dutch tomato hybrids grown in conditions of Western Bosnia and Herzegovina

“…In the study of different tomato genotypes it has been shown that cherry tomato contains the highest level of dry matter compared to other tomato hybrids (HALLMANN et al, 2007). The dry matter content ranged from 6.64% to 9.06% in the organic tomato production, and in the conventional production from 6.37% to 8.44% (VISKELIS, 2015).…”