Ascorbic acid is the principal form of vitamin C and plays an important role in the suppression of free radical accumulation(Dominguez et al., 2012; Kaur et al., 2013). A slight accumulationof ascorbic acid was observed during the study period and it wasstrongly influenced by time (P < 0.0001). However, no significanteffect of treatment conditions and their interaction on ascorbic acidwas observed (P > 0.05) (Table 4). After 4 days of treatment, ascorbicacid content of tomatoes stored under all storage conditions wasfairly stable as compared with the initial content (8.51 mg 100 g−1FW). While no significant difference (P > 0.05) in ascorbic acid con-tent was found among the different pressures and 13◦C conditions,hyperbaric treatment generally resulted in a higher ascorbic acidcontent than treatment at 0.1 MPa at 13◦C.