Moisture content was determined at fresh tomato processing waste up on arrival at the laboratory and found to be80.48 ± 0.35%. Tomato waste material was air dried at 25◦C,homogenized in a domestic blender and finally ground in alaboratory mill (Cutting Mill Pulverisette 15, Fritsch Gmbh,Idar-Oberstein, Germany) equipped with a 0.5 mm sieve. Mois-ture content of ground dry tomato waste was 7.65 ± 0.21%.The dry ground material was kept in glass jars wrapped withaluminium foil at −20◦C before further processing.