CONCLUSION
The obtained results indicated that gibberellic acid,
calcium chloride and salicylic acid play a very effective
role in controlling the weight loss, decay percentage and
other compositional changes such as pH, titratable
acidity, total soluble solids, total sugars, total
chlorophylls, carotenoids, lycopene, ascorbic acid and
total phenols of tomato stored at room temperature.
These treatments have delayed the ripening process more
effectively and with a minimum quality loss, as compared
to the control sample which had greater compositional
changes with maximum quality loss during storage at