Zongyan Sun

Oct 30, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Leilei Zhou |Tingting Hu |Di Chen |Zongyan Sun

Fruits of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) are rich in nutrients and generally served as critical resources for human diet. In fruit pericarps, the peel tissues adhering to the flesh produce functional components including flavonoids that are indeed mixed polyphenolic compounds. Flavonoids play an essential role in determining peel colour and are proven to be functionally important for human health as favourable hydrophilic antioxidants (Ballester et al., 2010).