Lycopene is a natural pigment that imparts red color to tomato, guava, watermelon, and pink grapefruit. Lycopene acts by various mechanisms to protect body cells against oxidative damage, and thus, lycopene may play a preventive role in different kinds of chronic cancers and cardiovascular diseases. Tomatoes (especially deep-red fresh tomato fruits) and tomato products are considered the most important source of lycopene in many human diets . Therefore most of the research on lycopene focus on tomato and tomato products. The present study is to estimate the lycopene content from the fresh...