Table 2.
Lycopene content in peel versus pulp in some tomato varieties (converted to mg/100 g FW). Literature review. Values in italics are obtained by spectrophotometry, otherwise HPLC.
| Cultivar | Total Lycopene (Converted to mg/100 g FW) |
Comment | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peel | Pulp | |||
| HLT-F61 | 89.3 | 28.0 | Field grown, Northern Tunisia | [62] |
| HLT-F62 | 50.8 | 16.7 | ||
| Rio Grande | 42.4 | 10.1 | ||
| 8-2-1-2-5 | 14.3 | 6.7 | Harvested at mature green stage (Ludhiana, India) and stored at 20 °C until ripe | [37] |
| Castle Rock | 13.1 | 6.2 | ||
| IPA3 | 10.2 | 4.0 | ||
| Pb Chhuhra | 8.6 | 4.6 | ||
| UC-828 | 6.5 | 3.7 | ||
| WIR 4285 | 6.5 | 3.1 | ||
| WIR-4329 | 8.1 | 4.3 | ||
| 818 cherry | 14.1 | 6.9 | Field grown, New Delhi, India | [63] |
| DT-2 | 8.1 | 5.2 | ||
| BR-124 cherry | 10.2 | 4.9 | ||
| 5656 | 10.7 | 4.5 | ||
| 7711 | 9.0 | 4.4 | ||
| Rasmi | 10.8 | 4.3 | ||
| Pusa Gaurav | 10.2 | 4.0 | ||
| T56 cherry | 12.0 | 3.8 | ||
| DTH-7 | 4.8 | 2.7 | ||
| FA-180 | 7.6 | 2.5 | ||
| FA-574 | 6.1 | 2.2 | ||
| R-144 | 6.2 | 2.0 | ||
| Grapolo | 6.0 | 1.2 | Purchased in supermarket or open-air market, Zagreb, Croatia, | [64] |
| Italian cherry tomato | 7.2 | 2.0 | ||
| Croatian cherry tomato | 5.3 | 1.6 | ||
| Croatian large size tomato | 3.5 | 1.3 | ||
| Turkish large size tomato | 3.3 | 1.2 | ||
FW: fresh weight.