Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
Khushbu Verma and Ranjana Verma

Abstract:
Tree tomato commonly known as tamarillo around the world. It has a lot of medicinal properties but the fruit remains neglected and hence there is a need to concentrate on diversification and popularization of such an un-exploited fruit. Tree tomato fruit is used as pulp and further formulated into different forms like toffee, chutney and butter. Sensory evaluation was conducted on all the products and the results indicate that out of three other value-added products tree tomato chutney was highly acceptable (7.30) among all other tree tomato products followed by tree tomato toffee and then tree tomato butter with good acceptability scores. Value addition of tree tomato fruits will improve the consumption by different communities, which will increase the demand of unexploited fruit and also reduce the postharvest losses.