Highlights•Low carotenoid bioaccessibility/bioavailability: worldwide issue.•Recent articles
on carotenoid bioaccessibility (link structure+ lipids) compiled.•Correlation: microstructural …

Background Carotenoids have gained considerable attention due to their potential positive
impact on health, which heavily depends on their bioavailability (including bioaccessibility …

Highlights•Design of functional food should be driven by availability experiments.•Food
components modulate carotenoid bioaccessibility.•Limiting steps must be overcame for …

This article aims to highlight discoveries during the past 5 years regarding aspects of the
bioaccessibility of carotenoids and apo-carotenoids, their uptake by intestinal cells, and their …

BACKGROUND: Many techniques exist for processing fruits and vegetables. The impact of
these processes on nutritional qualities of the food can be considerable, however. Given the …

Carotenoids are lipophilic pigments in plant foods that are of particular interest as precursors
of vitamin A, a nutrient required for vision, cell differentiation, and the immune system. In …

Carotenoid pigments are a group of bioactive compounds that are of interest to the food
scientists, nutritionists and food industries due to their positive impact on human health and …

Food processing and occurrence of dietary lipids are believed to be important and limiting
factors for carotenoid bioavailability in humans. In the present study the isolated and …

An experimental approach, allowing us to understand the effect of natural structural barriers
(cell walls, chromoplast substructures) on carotenoid bioaccessibility, was developed …

Over the past decades, an enormous body of literature dealing with the natural deposition of
carotenoids in plant-and animal-based foods has accumulated. Prominent examples are the …