In recent years, lycopene, a carotenoid antioxidant, has received considerable scientific attention (Tedesco et al., 2005; Sahin et al., 2006, 2014). Lycopene is mainly present in tomatoes and tomato products, and it has the highest antioxidant activities among the carotenoids due to its high number of conjugated double bonds
(Di-Mascio et al., 1989).