Why the Colour of tomato is green at first and then changes to red?
When tomatoes are growing on the vine they are not bright red like they are when they are ripe and ready to eat
there are two pigments they use for photosynthesis for their color-changing transformation chlorophyll and lycopene Chlorophyll is green and lycopene is red.
tomatoes get green colour due to Chlorophyll
tomatoes get red colour due to lycopene
When tomatoes first begin to grow, they contain mainly chlorophyll. This gives them their green color you see when they are on the vine. As they mature, however, a change begins to take place.
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