Control tomatoes were not dip treated. After dipping, fruit were airdried at room temperature and transferred to a refrigerated incubator maintained at 12◦C. Fruit samples were brought out of incubators on 7, 14 and 21 days after treatment and left at roomtemperature for 12 h prior to measurement of quality parameters of fruit. Whole tomatoes (all fruit tissues including seeds, 100 g per replicate) were homogenized in a blender for 3 min and the homogenate filtered using cheese cloth prior to storage at −20◦C until quality parameters of juice were analyzed (Section 2.2.).