http://orgprints.org/9944/ Comparison of the Nutritive Quality of Tomato Fruits from Organic and Conventional Production in Poland Organic horticulture is generally accepted as friendly to the environment, good for crop quality and also for the consumer’s health. Recent research data has shown that organic crops under organic farming practices contained more bioactive substances such as flavones, vitamin C, carotenoids; they also contain less pesticides residues, nitrates and nitrites. Five tomato cultivars: four large – fruit (Rumba, Juhas, Kmicic, Gigant) and one cherry cultivar (Koralik) were selected for study. The organic tomato fruits contained more dry matter, total and reducing sugars, vitamin C, total flavones and beta-carotene, but less lycopene in comparison to conventionally grown tomatoes. Hallmann, Ewelina Rembiałkowska, Ewa 2security int_conf_2007qlif_2_food_quality_and_safety pl Comparison of the Nutritive Quality of Tomato Fruits from Organic and Conventional Production in Poland 2007-03-09 Hallmann, Ewelina and Rembiałkowska, Ewa (2007) Comparison of the Nutritive Quality of Tomato Fruits from Organic and Conventional Production in Poland. 3rd QLIF Congress: Improving Sustainability in Organic and Low Input Food Production Systems, University of Hohenheim, Germany, March 20-23, 2007. source