Rosehip -- a "new" source of lycopene?
Lycopene, an efficient antioxidant and singlet oxygen quencher, is mainly delivered within the human diet out of tomatoes and tomato products. Processing liberates this carotenoid from complexes with proteins and thus makes it more bioavailable. Rosehip, a wild fruit which is used more often recently to produce mark, jams and juices, showed remarkable contents of lycopene (12.9-35.2 mg/100 g) with an unexpected isomer pattern.
Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Street 25-29, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Volker
V
Böhm
Kati
K
Fröhlich
Roland
R
Bitsch
D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism; D001682:Biological Availability; D002338:Carotenoids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D006801:Humans; D000077276:Lycopene; D027826:Rosa / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D013237:Stereoisomerism
D000975:Antioxidants; D002338:Carotenoids; D000077276:Lycopene