Background Carotenoids are C-30 or C-40 based pigments with antioxidant/anti-
inflammatory properties, some possessing vitamin A activity. Their dietary intake, especially …

In humans, as in plants, the xanthophyll lutein is believed to function in two important ways:
first as a filter of high energy blue light, and second as an antioxidant that quenches and …

Recent evaluations of diet quality in the UK reveal that two thirds of people still do not
consume the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables per day. Fruit and …

Dietary lipids are hypoentryesized to be an important factor for carotenoid bioavailability.
However, most carotenoid-rich fruits and vegetables are low in lipids. Entrye objective of …

Nutritional biomarkers are used for a variety of purposes in large-scale population surveys
and epidemiologic studies as well as smaller clinical studies. The main reasons for using …

Carotenoids are compounds of great dietery importance. Recent interest in carotenoids has
been stimulated by epidemiological studies that strongly suggest that consumption of …

Lycopene is present mainly as cis-isomers in human serum and tissues whereas all-trans-
lycopene predominates in tomato products, suggesting that all-trans-lycopene is isomerised …

Highly lipophilic food microconstituents (HLFMs) with octanol-water partition coefficients
log10 pc> 8 include the fat-soluble vitamins (A, E, D and K) and phytochemicals with …

Seven healthy females and six males consumed daily 256 mg of vitamin C, 271 mg of
flavanones (mainly as glycosides), 6 mg of carotenoids (mainly xanthophylls and …

The Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Study is a multisite randomized controlled
trial of the effectiveness of a high-vegetable, low-fat diet, aimed at markedly raising …