Abstract
Tomato is the most consumed and produced fruit vegetable in the world.Vitamin A, in turn, is formed by the cleavage of carotenoids produced by this fruit and otherfoods. Among all the carotenoids, the most important and found in tomatoes are lycopene andbeta-carotene, with beta-carotene being the most important precursor because it results in twomolecules of vitamin A, while the other car…