Clusters in a treatment were pooled and tomatoes of uniform ripeness selected from clusters were used for further studies. One hundred g of tomato slices (including all fruit tissues and seeds)were homogenized in a blender for 3 min and the homogenatefiltered using cheesecloth to remove solids. The filtrate was then frozen at −20◦C to evaluate quality parameters of juice. The juice was centrifuged (9000 × g, 5 min) prior to quality analyses (Section2.2