Easy-to-use. Compact. And Increased Performance. ColorFlex EZ Tomato Spectrophotometer gives you unsurpassed confidence and trust in your outcomes.

ColorFlex EZ Tomato is specifically designed to measure tomato color in its every processed form – paste/purée, sauce, ketchup, juice, as well as fresh tomatoes. Tomato color scales provided in firmware include: Tomato Paste Score (TPS), Tomato Sauce Score (TSS), Tomato Catsup Score (TCS), Tomato Juice Score (TJS), a/b ratio, Fresh Tomato Color Index (FTCI) & Lycopene index.

Hunter L,a,b color and CIE L*a*b* color, are also provided within the firmware, allowing for the capability to also use your ColorFlex EZ Tomato to measure the reflected color of a wide range of non-tomato samples - liquids, semisolids, powders, and solids. Inside its optional, custom designed, watertight carrying case will be everything you will need to immediately start measuring tomato color values, and includes: ColorFlex EZ Tomato instrument, Complete set of calibration & diagnostic tiles, HunterLab Tomato Reference Standard, 2 glass sample cups, Port insert for sample cup, Sample cup opaque cover and backed up by the finest customer support in the industry and USDA approved.

Product Specifications

Measurement Principle: Port up or Port forward dual-beam benchtop spectrophotometer

Geometry: Directional annular 45° illumination / 0° viewing

Spectrophotometer: Sealed optics; 256-element diode array and a high resolution concave holographic grating

Port Diameter/View Diameter: 31.8 mm (1.25 in) illuminated/ 25.4 mm (1 in) measured

Specular Component: Excluded

Spectral Range: 400 nm - 700 nm

Spectral Resolution: < 3 nm

Effective Bandwidth: 10 nm equivalent triangular

Reporting Interval: 10 nm

Photometric Range: 0 to 150 %

Light Source: Pulsed Xenon Lamp

Flashes per Measurement: 1 flash

Lamp Life: > 1 million flashes

Measurement Time: < 1 second from button push to measurement 2 seconds from button push to data display

Minimum Interval Between Measurements: 3 seconds

Standards Conformance: CIE 15:2004, ISO 7724/1, ASTM E1164, DIN 5033, Teil 7 and JIS Z 8722 Condition C

Standards Traceability: Instrument standard assignment in accordance with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) following practices described in CIE Publication 44 and ASTM E259