Makhteshim Chemical Works Ltd.

Lycored Natural Products

Makhteshim Agan of North America Ltd.

Yigal Raveh

Dov Hartal

Morris Zelkha

Nissim Garti

Abraham Wolf

Mordechai Ben-Yehuda

A red colorant is formed of 500 to 3000 ppm of crystalline lycopene mainly encapsulated by chromoplasts, and having a soluble solid concentration below 5&#xb0; Bx.

Natural coloring products

Tomatoes are separated into desirable food products by subjecting them, after conventional preliminary treatments, such as crushing, to a separation of serum from pulp by centrifugation at temperatures between 75.degree. and 110.degree. C. and centrifugal force between 2600 and 4000 G, whereby to obtain a pulp that contains at least 500 ppm of lycopene. The pulp is then subjected to extraction by means of solvents having .delta.H (delta H) and .delta.P (delta P) values chosen so as to extract an oleoresin that has a desired content of lycopene, phospholipids and mono- and di-glycerides. The serum is concentrated and mixed either with dehydrated spent tomato pulp or with dispersing agents and the mixture is dried to produce a new food product which is substantially free from sugars and agrochemicals, is low in lipids, and has a water content less than 5 ww %.

Industrial processing of tomatoes and product thereof

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Haifa, Israel

Yigal Raveh