is why there has been continuous increasing interest in the carotenoid content in tomato and tomato-based product in recent years. Analytical quantification of these components is destructive as well as time- and labour-consuming.
Therefore, researchers try to develop a non-destructive and rapid method to assess the fruit quality. Non-destructive
colour measuring of tomato fruits in visible (VIS) reflectance spectra showed a good correlation with lycopene (Pék
et al., 2014) and β-carotene (Borghesi et al., 2011) content also, but did not result in exact quantification thereof.