Baris Ozel

INTRODUCTION Hard candies, or glassy confections, are amorphous confections made from the mixture of a sweetener and doctoring agents. While the sweetener used is mostly sucrose, corn syrup is mostly preferred as the doctoring agent. Subsequently, additional water is mixed with these ingredients and the resulting mixture is heated to produce a concentrated mixture.

1 INTRODUCTION Tomato is one of the main components of the Mediterranean diet, and it contains a high amount of lycopene which is associated with a lower risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases (Farinetti et al., 2017). The high antioxidant content of tomatoes, including carotenoids, ascorbic acid, and polyphenols, is effective in inhibiting the reactions initiated by reactive oxygen species (Grosso et al., 2013).

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