Question

Acidity in tomato at its different stages of ripening

Answer 1

Some parameters of tomato fruits ripening such as color, pH, ºBrix, acidity and lycopene and β-carotene content were evaluated during the ripening of fruits. Five pesticides were quantified in organic extracts derived from tomatoes at different stages of maturation. The solid-liquid extraction technique with partition at low temperature (SLE-PLT) was used to obtain these organic extracts. The matrix effect of tomato was calculated from the results of analysis by gas chromatography with electron capture detector (GC-ECD).