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Original Articles

Color and Lycopene Content of Tomato Puree Affected by Electroplasmolysis

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Pages 489-495 | Received 15 Dec 2005, Accepted 14 Jul 2006, Published online: 10 Aug 2007
 

Abstract

Tomato puree was produced using three different breaking methods, namely heating by steam injection, by electroplasmolysis, and combination of both steam injection and electroplasmolysis. In electroplasmolysis, the tomato pulp was treated at the electric field strength of 68 V/cm for 1.5 seconds. L, a, b, a/b, tomato color index, total color difference, chroma difference, hue angle, and lycopene content of purees were measured. Puree samples breaked by electroplasmolysis had better color values and the highest lycopene content. The a/b, tomato color index, and lycopene content of these samples were as 2.00; 49.94 and 273.9 mg/kg, respectively.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This project was supported by Research Fund of Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.

Notes

14. SPSS Statistical Package,. SPSS for Windows, Ver. 11.0.1, Chicago, SPSS Inc. 2001.

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