“Micro-Tom” fruit as a model to study chilling injury was inves-tigated. The effect of postharvest chilling was compared on cvs. “Micro-Tom” and “Minitomato”, anothervariety with fruit of similar size. Green mature fruits cvs. “Micro-Tom” and “Minitomato” were harvestedand stored during 4 weeks at 4◦C. It was observed that tomato cv. “Micro-Tom” fruit was clearly tolerantto chilling while tomato cv. “Minitomato” fruit developed severe chilling injury symptoms and avoidedripening. Harvest and chilling altered the length of time between the different ripening stages, the devel-opment of red full color and smell. Also, it was shown that harvesting fruits by visual appreciation is arapid and useful method for distinguishing the different ripening stages during tomato cv. “Micro-Tom”fruit ripening. These results showed that tomato cv. “Micro-Tom” fruit was able to counteract the strainresulting from the imposed chilling stress. Altogether these data indicate that tomato cv. “Micro-Tom”fruit is a good model to study the mechanism of postharvest chilling response and tolerance in tomat