Table 1.

(a) Carotenoids and glycoalkaloids found in tomato ripe fruits. (b) Vitamins and polyphenols found in tomato ripe fruits.

(a)		Subclass and Chemical Structure			Role in Diseases
Carotenoids (tetraterpenoids)	Carotenes	α-Carotene [70,71]			Cardiovascular [72]
		β-Carotene [70]			Cardiovascular [72] Cancer [73] Neurodegenerative [74,75]
		Lycopene [70,76]			Cancer [77,78,79] Diabetes [80] Cardiovascular [72,81,82] Neurodegenerative [74,75] Skin [83,84,85,86,87]
		Neurosporene [88,89,90]			Skin [91]
		Phytoene [89,92]			Skin [93]
		Phytofluene [89,94]			Skin [93]
Glycoalkaloids	Saponins	Tomatine [95,96]			Cancer [97] Cardiovascular [95] Malaria [98]
		Esculeoside A [99,100]			Diabetes [100]
		Lycoperoside H [62,101]			Skin [62] Inflammation [101]
(b)
Polyphenols	Flavonoids	Kaempferol [102,103]	Quercetin [102,104]	Naringenin [102,105]	Diabetes [106,107] Skin [108] Neurodegenerative [109]
	Phenolic acids	Caffeic acid [102,110]	p-Coumaric acid [102,111]	Ferulic acid [102,112]	Cancer [113,114,115]
	Stillbenoids	Resveratrol [116,117]			Cancer [118,119] Diabetes [118] Cardiovascular [118] Neurodegenerative [120] Skin [121,122]
	Anthocyanins	Delphinidin [123,124]	Petunidin [123,125,126]		Cancer [127] Cardiovascular [127,128] Neurodegenerative [128] Skin [127] IBD [127,129,130]
Vitamins	B	Folate (vitamin B9) [70,131]			Infertility [132]
	C	Ascorbic acid [70,133]			Cancer [134] Diabetes [135] Skin [136,137]
	E	α-Tocopherol [70,138]			Cancer [134] Diabetes [135] Cardiovascular [139] Infertility [140]
	K	Phylloquinone (vitamin K1) [70]			Atherosclerosis [141]