Carotenoid contents

The 1993 market for LPC-type products in the United States was for dried alfalfa meal for animal feed. This product is sold for both protein and carotenoid content. The USDA Pro-Xan product attempts to obtain improved xanthophyU contents for use in egg-laying rations in addition to protein contents. The limitations to commercial development of LPC products for human food use are high capital costs as compared with the low yields of protein, seasonal availabihty of raw materials, and the need in the United States for FDA approval of the products. 

Light and photosynthetic electron transport convert DPEs into free radicals of undetermined stmcture. The radicals produced in the presence of the bipyridinium and DPE herbicides decrease leaf chlorophyll and carotenoid content and initiate general destmction of chloroplasts with concomitant formation of short-chain hydrocarbons from polyunsaturated fatty acids (37,97). 

TSR L, TSR L is a color-specified mbber, and the light amber color is produced by selecting clones with a low carotenoid content. After collection, the field latex is preserved with a mixture of ammonia and boric acid and subsequendy treated using 0.05% sodium metabisulfite to inhibit... 

HART J D and SCOTT K J (1995) Development and evaluation of an HPLC method for the analysis of carotenoids in foods and the measurement of carotenoid content of vegetables and fruits commonly consumed in the UK. Food Chem. 54(1) 101-111. 

Table 13.2 Carotenoid content of raw leafy green vegetables...

Table 13.3 Carotenoid content of fresh fruits, roots and seeds...

The selection of which gene(s) (or cDNA) to use depends upon the end product required, the carotenoid content of the host tissue and the need to... 

Daily consumption of various fruits, vegetables, and derived juices contributes to human intake of carotenoids. The estimation of carotenoid intakes has been made possible throngh publication of the qnalitative and qnantitative carotenoid contents of commonly consnmed foods. Average intake estimates in the United States are around 6.5 mg/day. In seven conntries in Enrope, the average total carotenoid intake based on the snm of the five carotenoids was approximately 14 mg/day. When dietary source of carotenoids were analyzed, carrots appeared as the major sonrces of p-carotene in all conntries except Spain, where spinach was the main contribntor. 

Carotenoid-rich extracts can be used for coloring purposes and serve as good sources of bioactive compounds. Breeding or genetic manipulation can substantially increase the carotenoid contents of plants, resulting in carotenoid-rich foods that can be applied either as direct sonrces of nutrients or as raw materials for extracting natnral yellow to red colorants. 

In processed products of the tropical fruit caja and in some cultivars of persimmons, all-tran P-cryptoxanthin was found to be the major carotenoid, contributing to 31 to 38% of the total carotenoid contents in both fruits (Table... 

Lycopene is well known as the predominant carotene in tomatoes, accounting for 65 to 98% of the total colored carotenoid content, depending on the cultivar (Table 4.2.3). The levels of lycopene in fresh tomatoes for salad varied from 21 to 79 g/g 34,35 jjj tomatoes for processing and deep-red tomatoes, the level of lycopene can be as high as 623 More than 80% of the tomatoes produced are... 

Other common fruits are also good sources of lycopene that represents 87 to 95% of the total carotenoid content in several seeded and seedless watermelon cultivars," ° 56 to 66% in different papaya cultivars, and 24 to 58% in pink grapefruits (Table 4.2.3). 

Red peppers are good sources of zeaxanthin (Table 4.2.5) although it represents less than 15% of total carotenoid content. - Sea buckthorn, a berry fruit native to... 

Bixin, a diapocarotenoid with a cis configuration at the carbon 9 and two carboxylic groups (one methylated), accounts for more than 80% of the total carotenoid content in annatto seeds, and has only been encountered to date in these seeds. The amount of red pigments in annatto seeds varies from 1.5 to 4%, depending on the variety. Bixin is the main pigment in commercial annatto powder... 

The effects of temperature on carotenoid content can be considered from three perspectives (1) evaluation of stability or retention of carotenoids, (2) study of the chemical changes (isomerization, oxidation, epoxy-furanoid rearrangement), and (3) their effects on the nutritional value and other carotenoid actions in humans. The first two topics are discussed in the following sections. The third is presented in Section 3.2.4.1 of Section 3.2. 

Muller, H., Determination of the carotenoid content in selected vegetables and fruit by HPLC and photodiode array detection, Z. Lebensm. Enters. Forsch. A, 204, 88, 1997. 

Setiwan, B. et al.. Carotenoid content of selected Indonesian fruits, J. Food Compos. Anal., 14, 169, 2001. 

Tonucci, L.H. et al.. Carotenoid content of thermally processed tomato-based food products, J. Agric. Food Chem., 43, 579, 1995. 

Over-expression of bacterial phytoene synthase led to only modest increases in pigment accumulation (except in the case of chloroplast-contaiifing tissues). Attention turned to CrtI, one gene that might control flux through the entire four desaturation steps from phytoene to lycopene (discussed in Section 5.3.2.4). Only a modest increase in carotenoid content in tomatoes and a variety of changes in carotenoid composition including more P-carotene, accompanied by an overall decrease in total carotenoid content (no lycopene increase), resulted when CrtI was over-expressed under control of CaMV 35S. Apparently, the bacterial desaturase... 

Association of pigment accumulation with DNA features can inform systematics and applied breeding in crop plants. For carotenoid content among crop plants, maize and tomato are best studied by this technique. Because there is interest in accumulation of various intermediate products in the pathway as well as end products, QTLs were developed for genetic determinates that are not independent of each other. Some QTLs affect multiple pigment contents. 

Matthews, P.D., Luo, R., and Wurtzel, E.T., Maize phytoene desaturase and zetacar-otene desaturase catalyze a poly-Z desaturation pathway implications for genetic engineering of carotenoid content among cereal crops, J. Exp. Botany 54, 2215, 2003. 

Wurtzel, E.T. et al.. Research towards improvement of the pro-vitamin A (carotenoid) content of rice endosperm, Int. Rice Res. Notes 21, 43, 1996. 

Eor estimation of the total carotenoid content of a sample, generally the absorbance is measured in petroleum ether at 450 nm and a mean value of 2500 forAj is used. In case a known carotenoid is present in the sample, the absorbance measured at the of that carotenoid and its corresponding Aj can be used for quantifi-... 

Perez-Galvez, A., Homero-Mendez, D., and Mmguez-Mosquera, M.I., Dependence of carotenoid content and temperature-time regimes during the traditional slow drying of red pepper for paprika production at La Vera County, Eur. Food Res. Technol., 221, 645, 2005. 

As a side aspect, the HPLC-Raman correlation results allow us to calibrate the RRS instruments in terms of carotenoid concentration. According to the regression analysis, the cumulative skin carotenoid content c, measured in pg per g of skin tissue, is linked to the height of the C=C RRS skin carotenoid intensity, I, via c [pg/g]=4.3 x 10 5=/ [photon counts]. Integrating the RRS spectra with the instrument s data acquiring software therefore allows us to display skin carotenoid content directly in concentration units, i.e., in pg carotenoid content per g of tissue. 

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