“…They are beneficial micronutrients (DiMascio, Kaiser, & Sies, 1989;McDowell, 1989; and exert antioxidant effect via their ability to quench singlet oxygen and trap peroxyl radicals (Burton & Ingold, 1984). Antioxidants improve animal origin food quality in terms of colour, oxidative stability, tenderness, and storage properties (Angelo, 1992;Flachowsky, 2000;Flachowsky, Engelman, Sunder, Halle, & Sallmann, 2002). Lycopene, a member of the carotenoids, is mostly found in tomato and watermelon.…”