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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2162</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS OF TOMATO AND ITS QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ramadas</surname><given-names>V.Saradha</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>T.Thilagavathi</surname><given-names/></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>77</fpage><lpage>83</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>In India, nearly 7.1 million tones of tomato are produced annually from an area of 5.4 lakh hectares. Tomato known as poor man__ampersandsignlsquo;s apple are cultivated on 70000 acres of land in the state with an average yield to 140000 tones of tomatoes a day being produced. Excess tomato production leaves Tamil Nadu farmers disappointed (www.thehindu.com). Tomato is a good source of vitamins, minerals and other useful substances like fiber which are necessary for good health. Tomato contains lycopene and betacarotene pigment. Lycopene is one of the most important components in tomato as it has been found to have a vital role in protecting humans from various types of cancer including colorectal, prostate, breast, endometrial and lung. Value addition to tomato through processing can be brought about by converting them into value added products. Sun Drying is found to be one of the ways to provide antioxidant product at low price to the community. Hence, tomato was dried and developed the various products using dried tomato and dried peel.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Tomato</kwd><kwd> Cultivation</kwd><kwd> Lycopene</kwd><kwd> Drying</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
