Lycopene and b-carotene contents in the tomato by-product
(37:63 w/w of peel/seed) provided by Kagome Co. Ltd. Japan, extracted
by chloroform sohxlet extraction for 15 h, were 0.82 ± 0.02
and 1.51 ± 0.06 mg/g dry tomato peel, respectively. The content of
oil in the tomato seed determined by soxhlet extraction was
0.34 ± 0.01 g/g dry tomato seed. The seed oil mainly contained linoleic
acid (C18:3; 62 ± 5%), followed by oleic acid (C18:1; 20 ± 4%),
linolenic acid (C18:2; 15 ± 4%), palmitic acid (C18:0; 2 ± 0.5%), stearic
acid (C16:0; 0.5 ± 0.1%) and unidentified fatty acid (0.5 ± 0.2%).