FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2008, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 196-199.

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Study on Lycopene Biosynthesis Improvement in Tomato Homogenate

 DU  Wei-Min, RONG  Kai, ZHENG  Cai-Xia   

  1. College of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Beijing Forestry University
  • Online:2008-04-15 Published:2011-08-24

Abstract: The impact of glucose,sodium glutamate and ethephon on the lycopene’s biosynthesis in tomato homogenate was studied. The optimun conditions, are: ethephon,glucose, sodium glutamate and BHT are added to the tomato homogenate until the final concentration to reaching respetively to 1.2%, 1.0%, 3.0% and 0.01% under treated at 25 ℃ for 30 min. The content of lycopene increased 86 %.

Key words: lycopene, tomato homogenate, glucose, sodium glutamate, ethephon