Lycopene

Lycopene is a carotenoid and phytonutrient, that is a natural color pigment that provides to the deep red color to tomatoes and various other fruits and vegetables such as watermelon, guava, papaya, apricots, pink grapefruits, red oranges, red carrots and red bell peppers, but; most of the people consumes lycopene from tomatoes and tomato products. According to a research results, dry tomato is containing 500-700 µg per gram product, on the other hand peel byproduct of dry tomato is containing 734 µg per gram and seed byproduct is containing 130 µm per gram.  (Knoblich, Anderson & Latshaw, 2005). Results show that lycopene content of peel of the tomato is denser than whole tomato or seed byproducts. A research shows that it is possible that enrichment of lycopene content of tomato paste (Reboul, Borel, Mikail, Abou, Charbonnier, Caris-Veyrat, Goupy & Portugal, 2005).