The vast and ever-growing amount of agricultural and food wastes has become a major
concern throughout the whole world. Therefore, strategies for their processing and value …

This review discusses three important chemical/biochemical assays for food carotenoids.
Considerable progress has been achieved in obtaining reliable quantitative data for food …

Industrial tomato processing generates large amount of low-value by-products, primarily
used as livestock feed or disposed of; however, being a rich source of natural carotenoids …

Tomato waste is an important source of natural carotenoids. This study was carried out to
assess the extractability of tomato waste carotenoids in different organic solvents and to …

A central composite design was used to optimize the enzyme-assisted extraction of
lycopene from the peel fraction of tomato processing waste. Tomato skins were pretreated …

Mounting evidence from clinical and epidemiological studies suggests that lycopene, the
most abundant carotenoid in tomatoes, may be beneficial in the prevention or treatment of …

Carotenoids constitute an important component of waste originating from tomato processing
plants. Studies were carried out to assess the extraction yield of tomato waste carotenoids in …

Measurement of fresh tomato fruit overall quality, and particularly lycopene content, is
challenging in the context of high-volume production. An experiment was conducted to …

Compounds with potent antioxidant properties are gaining interest among food
manufacturers and consumers alike. With rising concerns about the safety of synthetic …

High-performance liquid chromatography coupled with ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy,
using a photodiode array detector (HPLC-PDA) were used to explore different pigments as …