How does the colour of raw tomato change from green to red when it ripens?

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When tomatoes are green they have more amount of chlorophyll that make them look green in colour but as they start ripening process they start forming more amount of lycopene, as a result lycopene becomes dominant and gives red colour to tomato.

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